EXOTIC JAPAN - The Sensual & Visual Pleasures

by Boye De Mente

Overview

This book identifies and describes the sensual and visual attractions of Japan, from its fabulous coastlines, mountain ranges, offshore islands, and live volcanoes to its incredible collection of bars, night clubs, restaurants, sports, traditional theater [kabuki and noh] and fascinating street life...including street performers. Other attractions include a treasure trove of historical artifacts, from castles and landscaped gardens to the great images of Buddha in Kamakura and Nara.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012194169
Publisher:	Phoenix Books / Publishers
Publication date:	02/14/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	176 KB

About the Author

Boyé Lafayette De Mente has been involved with Japan, China, Korea and Mexico since the late 1940s as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency, student, journalist, editor and author working out of Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mexico City. He is a graduate of Jochi University in Tokyo, and The American Institute for Foreign Trade (in 1953), now Thunderbird School of Global Management, in Glendale, Arizona, USA.

De Mente wrote the first ever books on the Japanese way of doing business (Japanese Etiquette and Ethics in Business in 1959 and How to Do Business in Japan in 1962), and was the first to introduce the now commonly used Japanese terms wa, nemawashi, kaizen, tatemae-honne, shibui, sabi and wabi to the outside business world!

His 70-plus other books run the gamut from language learning to the night-time "pink" trades in Japan, the role of bars, cabarets and geisha houses in business, the sensual nature of Oriental cultures, male-female relations, and understanding and coping with the Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Mexican mindset in business and social situations.

He has also written extensive on the manners and morals of Americans, and the cultural failings that have plagued mankind since day one.