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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Sherrill, Martha.     Subjects     Sawataishi, Morie.     Akita dog -- Japan.     Human-animal relationships -- Japan.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sherrill, Martha.       by title:      Dog man : an uncommo...         MARC Display

Dog man : an uncommon life on a faraway mountain / Martha Sherrill. by Sherrill, Martha. New York : Penguin Press, 2008. Subjects Sawataishi, Morie.   Akita dog -- Japan.   Human-animal relationships -- Japan. ISBN:  9781594201240 : 1594201242 Description:  237 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. Requests:  0 Summary:  Morie Sawataishi lives a life that is radically unconventional by any standard but almost absurd in blatantly conformist Japan. Journalist Martha Sherrill provides a profound look at what it takes to be an individualist in a culture where rebels are rare. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, there were only sixteen Akita dogs left in the country. The magnificent hunting dogs had been donated to help in the war effort, or had been eaten, and their pelts used by the military to line the winter coats of the soldiers. Morie became obsessed with preventing the extinction of the breed, and he did it in a very un-Japanese way: defying convention, breaking the law, giving up the opportunity to hold prestigious engineering jobs in Tokyo, and choosing instead to take his new wife, Kitako--a sheltered sophisticate from Tokyo--to Japan's forbidding snow country to start a family.--From publisher description.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 636.73 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 636.73 Sherrill Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 636.73 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 636.73 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wahiawa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 636.73 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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