SAMURAI PRINCIPLES & PRACTICES for Parents, Teachers & Teens

by Boye De Mente

Overview

This book identifies and describes the principles and practices used by samurai parents during Japan's long samurai-ruled feudal period [1192-1868] to educate and train their children...creating one of the most accomplished and skilled class of people the world has ever seen. During the first generations these traits seeped into the culture of the common people. Virtually all of the positive character and personality traits for which the Japanese are famous today, as well as their skills in the arts and crafts, are part of their samurai heritage

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012222299
Publisher:	Phoenix Books / Publishers
Publication date:	02/14/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	64 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 is a recognized authority on the traditional and contempory culture of Japan, noted for such books as SAMURAI STRATEGIES; THE JAPANESE SAMURAI CODE; JAPAN'S CULTURAL CODE WORDS; and KATA: The Key to Understanding & Dealing with the Japanese.