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He studied at University of Tokyo.
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Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere: A Memoir by Nathan, John (March 18, 2008) Hardcover
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Sony: A Private Life
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Mishima: A Biography by John Nathan (1987-08-02)
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Mishima: A Biography
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Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere: A Memoir
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John Nathan arrived in Tokyo in 1961 fresh out of Harvard College, bringing with him no practical experience, no more than two connections, no prospects, and little else to recommend him but stoic, unflappable pluck. Japan at that time was still in the shadow of the Occupation, and only a handful of foreigners were studying the country seriously. Two years later, Nathan became the first American to pass the entrance exams to the best school in Japan, the University of Tokyo. He went on to translate two of Japan's greatest contemporary writers, Yukio Mishima and Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe, and direct several series of films in and about Japan in collaboration with world-famous directors and businesses; earn an advanced degree at Harvard and a professorship at Princeton; and become a Hollywood screenwriter. Nathan was given unprecedented access to the inner sanctum of Sony for his book "Sony: The Private Life," and he explored the damaged psyche of postbubble Japan in his acclaimed "Japan Unbound." During his decades of passionate engagement with Japan, Nathan became close friends with many of the most gifted people in the land -- politicians and business leaders as well as painters, novelists, directors, rock stars, and movie stars -- and was privileged to travel, in their very special company, inside domains of Japanese life not normally open to foreigners then or now. In his unique chronicle of that journey, "Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere," he details the adventures sublime, profane, and uproarious, many of a distinctly Japanese nature, that characterized his career, which was singular in its success as much as in its chaos. Along the way, he brings the most exciting era in recent Japanese history vividly into focus with wry humor, penetrating insight, and pathos. John Nathan is not the only foreigner to have developed a rich, full, deeply nuanced understanding of Japan. But his experiences are certainly extraordinary and in fact irreproducible, and his memoir is the most personally satisfying story yet told of Japan (and elsewhere). From Nathan's lifetime of wisdom, compassion, and brazen resolve, we learn the value of traveling within our own mental and emotional borders as well as without the many places we call home.
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Mishima: A Biography
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At forty-five, Yukio Mishima was the outstanding Japanese writer of his generation, celebrated both at home and abroad for The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. In 1970 he startled the world by stepping out onto a balcony in Tokyo before an assembly of troops and plunging a sword into his abdomen; a disciple then beheaded him, completing the ritual of hara-kiri. John Nathan's riveting biography traces the life of this tortured, nearly superhuman personality. Mishima survived a grotesque childhood, and subsequently his sadomasochistic impulses became manifest—as did an increasing obsession with death as the supreme beauty. Nathan, who knew Mishima professionally and personally, interviewed family, colleagues, and friends to unmask the various—often seemingly contradictory—personae of the genius who felt called by "a glittering destiny no ordinary man would be permitted."
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Mishima: A Biography by John Nathan (2000-04-07)
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By John Nathan - Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere (1st Free Press Hardcover Ed) (2/17/08)
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Sony: The Private Life by John Nathan (1999-09-28)
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Sony: The Private Life Hardcover - September 28, 1999
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John Nathan
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Nathan is also an Emmy-award winning producer, writer and director of many films about Japanese culture and society and American business. He is currently the Takashima Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. John Nathan"s fields include Japanese culture, Japanese literature, Japanese cinema, the theory and practice of translation, and the sociology of business culture.
The first American to be admitted as a regular student to the University of Tokyo, he spent many years living and studying in Japan.
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book
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Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere: A Memoir
(John Nathan arrived in Tokyo in 1961 fresh out of Harvard...)
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Mishima: A Biography
("In November 1970, forty-five-year-old Yukio Mishima, the...)
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Mishima: A Biography
( At forty-five, Yukio Mishima was the outstanding Japane...)
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Sony: The Private Life Hardcover - September 28, 1999
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
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Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere: A Memoir by Nathan, John (March 18, 2008) Hardcover
(New copy. Fast shipping. Will be shipped from US.)
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Sony: The Private Life
(New)
- By John Nathan - Mishima: A Biography (Reissue) (1985-09-16) Paperback
- Sony: A Private Life
- Mishima: A Biography by John Nathan (1987-08-02)
- Mishima: A Biography by John Nathan (2000-04-07)
- By John Nathan - Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere (1st Free Press Hardcover Ed) (2/17/08)
- Sony: The Private Life by John Nathan (1999-09-28)
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Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere: A Memoir
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