Things Japanese...

Dec 03, 2017 20:56

Things Japanese/related to check out...



Haruki Murakami - "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" (1995 novel)

Kazuo Ishiguro - "Never Let Me Go" (2005 novel) - "Never Let Me Go" (2010 film).

(Ang Lee is an American from Taiwan, which isn't that far from Japan. And he is a Buddhist. So.  I'm including him even though I shouldn't. He's made some pretty good movies, like: Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm, Brokeback Mountain, and, Taking Woodstock).

"Unbroken" (2014 film) - by Laura Hillenbrand (CFS; "Seabisquit"; main TAG) & Angelina Jolie

Aokigahara: "The Sea of Trees" (2015 film) - by Gus Van Sant and written by Chris Sparling

Japanese Gardens - A gift to the world!

Japan's cherry blossoms get winter makeover

Controlling Adult Japanese Beetles in the Garden

While diving off the coast of Japan, divers never expected to come across this - note: by 7000 BCe, the oceans had stopped their overwhelming rise.

One of my Favourites! - VISUALISE HERE

Cheap Trick Wants YOU!

George Takei responds to allegations of sexual abuse, …

David Suzuki

Michio Kaku

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_country#Japan

10 Contemporary Japanese Writers You Should Know

Famous Authors from Japan

Best Japanese Books (535 books) - Goodreads

Akita The Bear-Hunter!

Hachikō / Hachi: A Dog's Tale

"Hiroshima" (1946 book - by John Hersey) - main TAG

Hiroshima / Nagasaki / Fukushima - (the main tags) - Oh, ooops, look, another earthquake!

Japan - main TAG



Go ahead, add your own to the list! This post was partly inspired by meowmensteen, a geisha at Seattle's Japanese garden of creeping mimes and sleeping gnomes, also seen HERE.

takei - george, animals - birds, murakami - haruki murakami, japanese gardens, hillenbrand - laura, books - 'wind-up bird chronicle', aokigahara - the sea of trees, movies - 'never let me go', movies - 'ice storm', writers - japanese writers, animals - dogs - akita bear dogs, kaku - michio, tv - 'simpsons', music - cheap trick, garden pests, lee - ang lee, countries - japan, books - japanese, movies - 'taking woodstock', movies - 'sea of trees', movies - 'unbroken', scientists - japanese, movies - japanese movies, ishiguro - kazuo ishiguro, japanese beetles

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