Survival Japanese

Start speaking Japanese in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Survival Phrases - Japanese, a completely new way to learn Basic Japanese fast! Survival Phrases - Japanese will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and prepare you with cultural insight, travel tips and other information to utterly shock and amaze your friends and family, travel companions and people you meet along the way.

Eleven-year-old Japanese American Owen has been in Japan for his sixth-grade year. By March he finally feels like he's getting the hang of the new culture, making friends at school, and feeling at home with the "weird" food. But early one morning, everything changes - and Owen suddenly finds himself just trying to survive one of history's most devastating disasters.

Start speaking Japanese in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Survival Phrases - Japanese, a completely new way to learn Basic Japanese fast! Survival Phrases - Japanese will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and prepare you with cultural insight, travel tips and other information to utterly shock and amaze your friends and family, travel companions and people you meet along the way.

On December 13, 1944, POW Estel Myers was herded aboard the Japanese prison ship, the Oryoku Maru, with more than 1,600 other American captives. More than 1,100 of them would be dead by journey's end... The son of a Kentucky sharecropper and an enlistee in the Navy's medical corps, Myers arrived in Manilla shortly before the bombings of Pearl Harbor and the other six targets of the Imperial Japanese military.

Acclaimed military historian Major Bruce Norton USMC (Ret.) brings to light a long-forgotten memoir by a marine captured at Corregidor in 1942 and interned for three devastating years by the Japanese. With unflinching prose, the words of Marine Sergeant Maj. Charles Jackson describe the fierce yet impossible battle for Corregidor, the surrender of thousands of his comrades, the long forced marches, and the lethal reality of the P.O.W. camps. Joining some of the most important eyewitness accounts of war, I AM ALIVE! is a testament to the men who fought and died for their country.

As one of six children of British medical missionaries, John Hoyte grew up in China till age 13. During World War ll, he and his siblings, separated from their parents, were interned by the Japanese for nearly four years. In his 20s, he led a British expedition over the Alps with an elephant to investigate which way Hannibal and his army of 30,000 men and 37 elephants had taken in 218 BC. Later, he founded a start-up corporation in Silicon Valley and was an inventor and entrepreneur. With each surprising twist and turn of his journey, John has built a fulfilling life, infused with purpose and creativity.

This book details the lives of two of the world's greatest entrepreneurs who fought against odds that can only serve to inspire those who struggle against the greatest misfortune and succeed.

関野吉晴氏（探検家・医師）推薦！「ヒグマ撮りからヒグマ獲りになった著者の、命に向き合う姿勢の変化が真摯に描かれている。何よりも、狩猟現場の描写が臨場感溢れていて、惹きつけられた」

ロマンだけでは食べていけないが、ロマンのない考古学なんてつまらない！ 墓石に閉じ込められたり、原因不明の病にかかったり、人骨と過ごしたり…… 発掘調査は命がけ！

ころんで死ぬ、ダニに噛まれて死ぬ、助けようとして死ぬ、キャンプの炊事中に死ぬ、風に飛ばされて死ぬ——など、アウトドアには「まさか、こんなことで……」と思うような、死の危険がたくさんあります。