2021年5月27日 星期四

集英社 Goya

 集英社 Goya    1450 日幣  約5~7美元 約300~500台幣，2018年二手書約300元

1971年出版，1979年第七刷

除了定價，內容可算很好，要而不繁......


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日圓在儲備貨幣的國際構成比例僅次於美元、歐元和英鎊，名列第四位。日圓美元貨幣對是流通量較高的貨幣對之一。日圓與美元匯率的發展可以分為兩個階段來討論：二戰至1990年期間的變動，及1990年至今的匯率變動。

二戰後，日圓極度貶值。日本政府為了促進經濟恢復，採用赤字政策，大量發行貨幣並不加限制地向企業發放貸款，從而引發國內通貨膨脹。1945年，日本實行固定匯率制，匯率為360日圓兌1美元。隨著日本經濟的復蘇，對美國貿易順差的加大，日圓升值的呼聲增強。1971年，時任美國總統的尼克松宣布放棄美元對黃金的固定比價，標誌布雷頓森林體系被破壞，日圓開始升值。當時的日本政府希望通過干預措施穩定日圓匯率，但是並沒有維持多久，到1974年時匯率下跌到300日圓兌1美元。1975年後，日美貿易擴張，1978年匯率達到170日圓兌1美元左右的高價。之後，由於第二次石油危機導致石油價格上漲，美國開始出現通貨膨脹。美國國內提升利率，控制貨幣發行以期降低通貨膨脹，美元升值，日圓貶值。1985年5月日圓兌美元匯率大約在250：1。1985年，在美國政府的主持下，日本、聯邦德國、英國、美國和法國簽訂廣場協議，共同促進美元貶值。隨後，日圓升值，1987年時更是達到120日圓兌1美元。1987年2月美國又號召7國財長在法國巴黎盧浮宮召開會議，會議達成了制止美元進一步貶值的諒解，即盧浮宮協議。此後日圓發生了一定幅度的貶值。

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2021年5月21日 星期五

Japanese bullet train driver in trouble for going to toilet



An inquiry was launched after the train arrived one minute late at its destination.



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Japanese bullet train driver in trouble for going to toilet
The 36-year-old driver left the cab mid-journey while hundreds of pas
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2021年5月13日 星期四

『宮本武蔵』と日本人



『宮本武蔵』と日本人 講談社現代新書 1964 桑原 武夫




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【歷史上的今天】
慶長17年（1612年）的這天、宮本武蔵與佐佐木小次郎在長門國（今本州山口縣下關市）的舟島（浮在關門海峽上的巖流島）PK對決。不過事實為何，流傳著許多說法。
https://www.nippon.com/hk/japan-topics/g00689/



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宮本武藏及其《五輪書》所展現的兵法思想
江戶初期的劍術大師宮本武藏，一生經歷了60多場生死決鬥，未嘗一
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2021年5月2日 星期日

‘Tokyo Junkie’ 東京癮君子”：: Robert Whiting (1942~)

 BOOKS

‘Tokyo Junkie’: Robert Whiting recounts a lifelong addiction to his adopted city

BY MARK SCHREIBER

The author and longtime Japan resident tackles his hardest writing project ever — “interviewing himself” for a memoir on his life, the changing urban landscape and, of course, baseball.

東京癮君子”：羅伯特·惠廷（Robert Whiting）講述了對他所居住城市的終身痴迷

馬克·施賴伯（MARK SCHREIBER）

這位作家和長期居住在日本的居民著手處理他有史以來最艱苦的寫作項目-“採訪自己”以撰寫回憶錄，以回憶他的生活，不斷變化的城市景觀，當然還有棒球。




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著書[編集]

  • 『菊とバット―プロ野球にみるニッポンスタイル』（訳者は鈴木武樹。1977年、ISBN 978-4377403787）
  • 『拝啓日本プロ野球』（訳者は松本正志。1985年、ISBN 978-4870310186）
  • 『ニッポン野球は永久に不滅です』（訳者は松井みどり。1985年、ISBN 978-4480050595）
  • 『ジェシーとサリー―ガイジン力士物語』（訳者は松井みどり。1986年、ISBN 978-4480870995）
  • 『ガイジン力士物語―小錦と高見山』（訳者は松井みどり。1989年、ISBN 978-4480023391）
  • 『和をもって日本となす』（訳者は玉木正之。1990年、ISBN 978-4047911819）
  • 『日米野球摩擦』（訳者は松井みどり。1990年、ISBN 978-4022561183）
  • 『さらばサムライ野球』（訳者は松井みどり。ウォーレン・クロマティとの共著。1991年、ISBN 978-4062042451）
  • 『ベースボール・ジャンキー』（訳者は松井みどり。1991年、ISBN 978-4022562692）
  • 『ベースボールと野球道―日米間の誤解を示す400の事実』（玉木正之との共著。1991年、ISBN 978-4061490529）
  • 『TOKYOジャンキー(東京中毒)』（訳者は松井みどり。1993年、ISBN 978-4022565792）
  • 『日出づる国の「奴隷野球」―憎まれた代理人・団野村の闘い』（訳者は松井みどり。1999年、ISBN 978-4163556802）
  • 『東京アンダーワールド』（訳者は松井みどり。2000年、ISBN 978-4047913493）
  • 『東京アウトサイダーズ ― 東京アンダーワールド2』（訳者は松井みどり。2002年、ISBN 978-4047914100）
  • 『海を越えた挑戦者たち』（訳者は松井みどり。2002年、ISBN 978-4042471042）
  • 『イチロー革命―日本人メジャー・リーガーとベースボール新時代』（訳者は松井みどり。2004年、ISBN 978-4152085993）
  • 『野球はベースボールを超えたのか』（訳者は松井みどり。2006年、ISBN 978-4480687364）
  • 『世界野球革命』（訳者は松井みどり。2007年、ISBN 978-4150503192）
  • 『サクラと星条旗』（訳者は阿部耕三。2008年、ISBN 978-4152088970）
  • 『メジャーリーグとても信じられない話』（訳者は松井みどり。2008年、ISBN 978-4163706504）
  • 『ボブさんの誰にも書けないベースボール事件簿 』（訳者は阿部耕三。2009年、ISBN 978-4042471066）
  • 『新・イチロー伝説』（芝山幹郎との共著、2009年、ISBN 978-4583102016）
  • 『野茂英雄―日米の野球をどう変えたか』（訳者は松井みどり。2011年、ISBN 978-4569793092）
  • 『ふたつのオリンピック　東京1964／2020』（訳者は玉木正之。2018年、ISBN 978-4044002183）

『REGGIE』の原作をGUY JEANS名義で担当している。また、ライアン・コネルがアメリカで発売した『Tabloid Tokyo』という本に紹介文を載せている。

Robert Whiting (born October 24, 1942) is a best-selling author and journalist who has written several successful books on contemporary Japanese culture - which include topics such as baseball and American gangsters operating in Japan. He was born in New Jersey, grew up in Eureka, California[1][2] and graduated from Sophia University in Tokyo. He has lived in Japan for a total of more than three decades since he first arrived there in 1962, while serving in the U.S. Air Force. He currently divides his time between homes in Tokyo and California.

Writing career[edit]

Whiting's works on baseball include The Chrysanthemum and the Bat: The Game Japanese Play (Dodd, Mead, N.Y. 1977), You Gotta Have Wa (1989 Macmillan, 1990, 2009 Vintage Departures), Slugging It Out In Japan: An American Major Leaguer in the Tokyo Outfield (1991), and The Meaning of Ichiro: The New Wave from Japan and the Transformation of Our National Pastime (2004), all of which have been published in English and Japanese.

You Gotta Have Wa is a work about Japanese society as seen through their adopted sport of baseball. It was a Book of the Month Club selection, a Casey Award finalist and a Pulitzer Prize nominee.[8] Though considered an excellent book on baseball (the San Francisco Chronicle described it as "one of the best-written sports books ever"),[2] like most of Whiting's sports writing it examines much larger issues concerning Japan as well. David Halberstam stated that "What you read (in You Gotta Have Wa) is applicable to almost every other dimension of American-Japanese relations."[2] The book has been required reading in the Japanese Studies departments of many American universities, as well as at the Japan Desk in the U.S. State Department.[2] It sold 125,000 copies in hardcover and trade paperback and is in its 23rd printing. It was published in Japanese by Kadokawa under the title Wa Wo Motte Nihon To Nasu. It sold 200,000 copies in hardcover and paperback editions. In September 1991 it appeared in a list of the best non-fiction books ever published in Japan, compiled by Hon No Hanasahi magazine. It has sold over 400,000 copies world wide, including Chinese and Korean editions.

The Chrysanthemum and the Bat was chosen by TIME Magazine editorial staff as the best sports book of the year.[2] Published in Japanese by Simul Publishing Company, as Kiku to Batto it was a best-seller and was reissued in 2005 by Hayakawa Shoten Publishing.

Warren Cromartie's autobiography, Slugging It Out In Japan (Kodansha International, Tokyo 1991), was co-authored by Whiting. The book was the recipient of a New York Public Library award for educational merit. Published in Japanese by Kodansha International, as Saraba Samurai Yakyu, it sold 190,000 copies in hardcover.

The Meaning of Ichiro, was published by Warner Books in 2004, and excerpted in Sports Illustrated. It sold 25,000 copies. The Japanese translation, Ichiro Kakumei was published by Hayakawa Shoten and has made many best-seller lists. A revised and updated edition of The Meaning of Ichiro, entitled The Samurai Way of Baseball, was published in trade-paperback form by Warner Books in April, 2005.

Whiting’s most popular work is the nonfiction Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan (Pantheon, N.Y. 1999, Vintage Departures, 2000), an account of organized crime in Japan and the corrupt side of U.S.-Japan relations. Mario Puzo described the book as "a fascinating look at...fascinating people who show how democracy advances hand in hand with crime in Japan."[9] It was a best-seller on many lists in Tokyo when published in translated form by Kadokawa, selling over 300,000 copies in hardcover and paperback in Japan alone, and was chosen as one of the top ten books on Japan (at number two) in an article by the scholar Jeff Kingston, writing in the #1 Shimbun.[10]

Tokyo Underworld was reported in 2009 and 2012 as being developed for film or television, with Whiting working as a consultant on the project,[11][12] but nothing had been produced as of 2018.[13]

A sequel to Tokyo Underworld, Tokyo Outsiders - about foreign criminals in the Japanese underworld - has been published in Japanese, and an English version is in the works.[14]

Whiting in 2013 was in the process of writing another book on Japan's postwar characters. “I have a 150,000-word draft," Whiting said, "but unfortunately I picked the wrong 150,000. Now I’ve got to go back and replace them with the right ones.” He said he rewrites all his books multiple times before publication.[3]

Whiting has also written 20 books in Japanese, mostly collections of the columns and articles he has written. His works have sold an aggregate of nearly two million copies in North America and Japan combined. In addition, he has authored a Manga series about a gaijin ballplayer in Japan, entitled Reggie, and published by Kodansha Comic Morning that sold 750,000 copies in graphic novel form.

His biography of the Japanese pitcher, Hideo Nomo, who played in the US Major Leagues and was National League Rookie of the Year in 1995. The book was published in 2011 by PHP in Japanese. (Whiting has publicly praised Nomo, asserting that the history of Japanese baseball can be split up into “pre-Nomo and post-Nomo” eras.)[15]

The English-language The Book of Nomo was published in January 2017.[16]

Whiting's book ふたつのオリンピック、東京１９６４/２０２０ (The Two Tokyo Olympics: 1964/2020) was published in Japanese by Kadokawa in 2018.[17]

In addition to his books, Whiting has been published in numerous periodicals, such as The New York Times,[18][19] The Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, TIME,[20] and US News and World Report. He is also one of very few Westerners to write regular columns in the Japanese press. From 1979-1985, he was a columnist for the Japanese language Daily Sports. From 1988 to 1992, he wrote a weekly column for the popular magazine Shukan Asahi. From 1990-1993, he was a reporter/commentator for News Station, the top-rated news program in Japan. Since 2007, he has written a weekly column for Yukan Fuji, a major evening daily newspaper in Japan. He has written extensively on current issues impacting both Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball, including a four-part series, which was published in the Japan Times, followed by an in-depth series on Sadaharu Oh, Trey Hillman, Bobby Valentine and Hideo Nomo for the same paper.[21][22]

In October 2011, he wrote a three-part series for The Japan Times on the talented, but troubled, Japanese pitcher Hideki Irabu, who had died in California two months earlier of an apparent suicide.[23]

In a shifting era of globalization, Whiting is one of the few sports experts to explore the transnational flows of athletics. In his works he not only examines how different cultures have influenced the game of baseball, but how the game of baseball has helped influence and shape cultural identity across the globe. He is also an insightful commentator on the influence of the yakuza on the Japanese power structure and the dark side of Japanese-American relations since the end of the Second World War.[9][11][24]

In April 2005, Whiting was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Foreign Sportswriters Association of Japan.[25]

You Gotta Have Wa and Slugging It Out in Japan appeared in the book, 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die (University of Nebraska Press, 2013).[26]

Tokyo Giants controversies and banning from Tokyo Dome[edit]

Whiting was banned from the Tokyo Dome for two years in 1987 after publishing an interview with Warren Cromartie in the Japanese magazine Penthouse, in which Cromartie criticized Yomiuri Giants front office executives.[3][27]

He was banned again, indefinitely, in 1990, after writing an investigative report for the magazine Shukan Asahi, which showed the Giants were falsifying attendance figures. The Yomiuri front office had claimed that every Giants home game played in the Tokyo Dome drew a capacity crowd of 56,000. However, Whiting counted the seats, which totaled 42,761, and then the standing room at several Giants games, which averaged 3,500, demonstrating that the maximum audience for a baseball game could not have been much more than 46,000. Whiting returned to the Dome for the first time as a reporter in 2004 to cover an Opening Day match between the New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Rays.[28][29][3]

Other professional activities[edit]

In addition to his work as a writer, Whiting has delivered speeches at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, Temple University, Occidental College, Michigan State University, the International House of Japan, the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, CLSA, and The Japan Society of New York, among other institutions. He has also appeared in numerous documentaries about Japan and on such shows as CNN's Larry King Live, the PBS Macneil-Lehrer News Hour, Nightline, ESPN's Sports Central, HBO's RealSports and All Things Considered.[30]

On July 19, 2015, Whiting launched his own weekly podcast entitled "Robert Whiting's Japan" (https://soundcloud.com/robert-whitings-japan). It is available on SoundCloud and via iTunes.

Family[edit]

Whiting is married to Machiko Kondo, who recently retired as an officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In her 25 year career she was posted in Geneva, Mogadishu, Karachi, Tan Jung Pinang and Dhaka, among other locations.[2] Her last post, in Stockholm, was as Representative for Scandinavia, an ambassador-level position.[14]

Representation[edit]

Whiting's literary agent is Amanda Urban at ICM.[31]

References[edit]

  1. ^ People: Robert Whiting, Japan Times, Vivienne Kenrick, November 12, 2000
  2. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e f "More about Robert Whiting" japanesebaseball.com
  3. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e f g Blair, Gavin and Whiting, Robert. "Robert Whiting," # 1 Shimbum, Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, December, 2013
  4. ^ "Osaka mayor, Yomiuri boss trade dictator insults," Japan Today, March 23, 2012
  5. ^ "Highest Newspaper Circulation," Highest Daily Newspaper Circulation, Guinness World Records
  6. ^ Tsuneo Watanabe, Executive Profile Bloomberg Businessweek
  7. ^ Schreiber, Marc. "Best-selling author Robert Whiting talks baseball, gangsters, bribes and more," The Japan Times, April 4, 2004
  8. ^ "Author profiles: Robert Whiting" nipponnomirai.jp
  9. ^ Jump up to:a b "Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan" randomhouse.com
  10. ^ Kingston, Jeff. "The No. 1 Top Ten: Books on Japan," # 1 Shimbun, Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, August, 2011
  11. ^ Jump up to:a b Sakata, Shane (August 7, 2009). "Tokyo Underworld – Coming to a Theater Near You!". Japan | Japan Travel. Nihon Sun.
  12. ^ "Robert Whiting lecture on the Yakuza". New York City: The Japan Society of New York. February 16, 2012. Archived from the original on November 14, 2014.
  13. ^ Hadfield, James (March 15, 2018). "Netflix's new yakuza flick has Jared Leto on the outs with critics". The Japan Times. Retrieved April 26, 2019. ...despite passing through the hands of DreamWorks, Warner Bros., Paramount and HBO, it never made it to the screen.
  14. ^ Jump up to:a b "Baseball expert lines up new book on mobsters in Japan" The Japan Times, August 1, 2009
  15. ^ Armstrong, Jim. “Former Teammates, Opponents Salute Hideo Nomo,” USA Today, July 18, 2008
  16. ^ Whiting, Robert. The Book of Nomo, Japanime Co. Ltd., 2017
  17. ^ CORPORATION, KADOKAWA. "ふたつのオリンピック 東京1964/2020". KADOKAWAオフィシャルサイト.
  18. ^ Whiting, Robert. "Season Opens as Surely as Day Follows Night" The New York Times, March 26, 2008
  19. ^ Whiting, Robert. "The Emperor of Swat" The New York Times, August 9, 2007
  20. ^ Whiting, Robert. "Baseball in Japan: Not All Cheers" TIME, March 26, 2008
  21. ^ Whiting, Robert. “NPB players in need of strong union like MLBPA” The Japan Times, April 14, 2007
  22. ^ Whiting, Robert. "Nomo’s legacy should land him in Hall of Fame," The Japan Times, October 24, 2010
  23. ^ Whiting, Robert. "Irabu spent final days lost, without purpose" The Japan Times, October 30, 2011
  24. ^ "Tokyo Underworld" kirkusreviews.com, December 1, 1998
  25. ^ Gallagher, Jack. "Whiting honored by FSAJ" The Japan Times, April 5, 2005
  26. ^ Kaplan, Ron. 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die, University of Nebraska Press, 2013
  27. ^ Penthouse (Japan), January, 1987
  28. ^ Shukan Asahi (Japan), July, 1990
  29. ^ Sloan, Dan. “If you still wanna have wa,” # 1 Shimbun, Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, June, 2009
  30. ^ Pacific Rim Lecture Series Event: Robert Whiting Talks About His New Book, "The Meaning of Ichiro" Temple University, Japan Campus, Website
  31. ^ Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan, Publishers Weekly, publishersweekly.com

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