AMAZING JAPAN - Why Japan is One of the World's Most Intriguing Countries

by Boye De Mente

Overview

Veteran Japanologist Boye Lafayette De Mente identifies and describes the amazing, the bizarre, the wonderful, and the unique attractions and pleasures of Japan that he has experienced over a 60-year period, including the astounding variety and volume of nightlife in Japan from geisha to hot-house massage parlors, mixed-sex bathing, and from visiting live volcanoes to viewing the world from the top of Mt. Fuji.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012671578
Publisher:	Phoenix Books / Publishers
Publication date:	02/16/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	99 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.