Taeko Kono

Nobuko Takagi

Takako Takahashi

Tomoko Yoshida

Lucy North (Translator)

Taruho Inagaki

Margaret Mitsutani (Translator)

Jeffrey Angles (Translator)

Philip Price (Translator)

Brian Bergstrom (Translator)

A young storm-chaser welcomes a jaded woman into the eye of a storm. The last man of a peculiar family, implausibly tiny in stature, attends a Mozart opera with his dedicated wife. A medical student coolly observes an adolescent boy as he contorts his body into violent positions. With tension and wit, the writers of Unusual Fragments, among them Nobuko Takagi, Yoshida Tomoko, and Inagaki Taruho, trace their taboo, feminist, bizarre themes to complicate what we think of as 20th century Japanese literature. What’s hiding just beneath the fiction of our perfectly ordered, happy lives? Something unusual. Something far more interesting.

Unusual Fragments: 20th Century Japanese Fiction

Richard W. Brislin

This unique handbook provides an organizational framework for planning and establishing intercultural communication training programs. Drawing from intercultural communication and cross-cultural training, this guide emphasizes those aspects of training that explicitly involve face-to-face communication. The approaches covered apply to any situation where good personal relations and effective communication need to be established with people from different cultural backgrounds.

An Introduction

Intercultural Communication Training

Tomoko Yoshida

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