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1868. The Boshin War is about to break out. A 16-year-old Japanese girl, Atsuko grew up in the neighborhoods of Aizu City, in the shadow of her brother Ibuka. Promised to an arranged marriage, the young girl hides a secret: she wields weapons just as well as her brother, whose talent with the sword actually masks an insurmountable fear of combat. When war is declared, Ibuka must leave to fight alongside their father for the honor of the family. Defying the tradition forbidding women to take part in battles and wanting to protect her brother, Atsuko enlists in secret as a simple soldier.

Este libro trata de dos historias: la del autor y la de su objeto de estudio, la sociedad japonesa contemporánea. Ambas se funden en los 31 años que pasó en el seno de esa sociedad. El lector encontrará pasajes en que destaca los puntos de contacto entre ambas historias y otros en que se distancia de su historia personal para analizar diversas facetas de la sociedad japonesa de un modo accesible, intentando evitar academicismos. En algunos capítulos se refiere a las fuentes históricas de su situación actual, la historia entendida como herramienta indispensable para entender el ...

Immersive, fascinating and with an ending that will quite simply… blow your socks off! Who ever really knows themselves? And if you don’t know yourself, can you ever be truly happy? Mark Rasper is a thirty-year old man who has always had a fascination with Japan. It started when he played Metal Gear Solid with school buddy Paul, becoming thoroughly captivated not only by everything Japanese, but by the character Solid Snake. When a transfer opportunity turns up at the company he works for, he doesn’t hesitate, and before he has time to change his mind he is on a plane to Tokyo. Mark ...