ISBN 9780762709496

Uitgever Rowman & Littlefield

Taal Engels

Categorie hobby,reizen,Azië

Meer info 2001, paperback, good copy

Extra informatie Few places on earth both invite and confound stereotypes like Japan. Isolated from the Western world until the mid-nineteenth century, Japan has modernized like no other Asian nation. Home to corporate powerhouses like Mitsubishi and Toyota, its sensibilities have also given rise to nouvelle cuisine and minimalist interior design. Gadgetobsessed, it has produced modern icons like the Walkman and the hatchback; and yet one of its most enduring traditions, the tea ceremony, is an exercise in simplicity formalized into high art. A journey to Japan, then, is a voyage into a land in which the modern and the traditional rub shoulders, where new and old have never been exclusive. There is room here for both a beach in a dome and women who dive for pearls, for high-tech showrooms and puppet performances of medieval love suicides, for cheek-by-jowl urban corridors and hideaway mountain hot springs. Japan, in other words, is everything we expect of it and a lot more that we don't. From Alpine skiing to coral diving, this book takes the traveler on an odyssey through Japan that encompasses far more than the rakedpebble gardens and geisha-shuttle of Kyoto. It prepares the reader for that most winning of Japanese experiences: the unexpected.

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