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008			070823s2008 nyuab 000 0deng
020			_a9781594201240
020			_a1594201242
050	0	0	_aOkSF429.A65 _bS55 2008
100	1		_aSherrill, Martha.
245	1	0	_aDog man : _ban uncommon life on a faraway mountain / _cMartha Sherrill.
260			_aNew York : _bPenguin Press, _c2008.
300			_a237 p. : _bill., map ;
520			_aMorie 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.
650		0	_aAkita dog
650		0	_aHuman-animal relationships
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856	4	2	_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0903/2007035113-b.html
856	4	2	_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0903/2007035113-d.html
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