The Bizarre & the Wondrous from the Land of the Rising Sun!

by Boye De Mente

Overview

This book consists of a large collection of provocative articles on aspects of Japan that reveal the weird and the wonderful sides of the country, from its famous fertility festivals that feature huge replicas of the male organ to the story [for which there is some fascinating evidence] that Jesus Christ spent those years when he was missing from all the Bible accounts in Japan in a village named Herai; that he did not die on the cross [as the story goes that was his brother Isukiri], but fled back to Japan where he married, had children and was buried in a tomb that still exists...!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012194299
Publisher:	Phoenix Books / Publishers
Publication date:	02/14/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	142 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 extensively about contemporary American culture. See CULTURAL FAILURES THAT ARE DESTROYING THE AMERICAN DREAM!