title: Direct Translation Impossible: Tales from the Land of the Rising Sun
author:  Chad Frisk 
description: Chad is a graduate student at the University of Washington working towards a Masters in Teaching English to Students of Other Languages. From 2008 to 2013 he lived and taught English in Hamamatsu, Japan on the JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) Program. In 2008 he was awarded the Jill Carlstrom Award for Japanese Studies at Whitman College, and in 2010 passed the most difficult level of the Japanese Language and Proficiency Test (N1) with a score of over 99%. Follow Chad on Twitter @friskcr.
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  Table of Contents
  
  
  [Title Page](CR%21J6889V4X3N78Q8G5R57XPXWC0FK3_split_001.html#filepos308)
  
  
  [Copyright Page](CR%21J6889V4X3N78Q8G5R57XPXWC0FK3_split_004.html#filepos3589)
  
  
  [Dedication](CR%21J6889V4X3N78Q8G5R57XPXWC0FK3_split_005.html#filepos7581)
  
  
  [Epigraph](CR%21J6889V4X3N78Q8G5R57XPXWC0FK3_split_006.html#filepos8118)
  
  
  [Preface](CR%21J6889V4X3N78Q8G5R57XPXWC0FK3_split_008.html#filepos19369)
  
  
    
  
  
  [Chapter 1 - A FOREIGN
  COUNTRY](CR%21J6889V4X3N78Q8G5R57XPXWC0FK3_split_009.html#filepos44236)
  
  
  [Chapter 2 - THE PACIFICATION
  PROCESS](CR%21J6889V4X3N78Q8G5R57XPXWC0FK3_split_018.html#filepos139132)
  
  
  [Chapter 3 - THE CIVILIZING
  PROCESS](CR%21J6889V4X3N78Q8G5R57XPXWC0FK3_split_024.html#filepos223825)
  
  
  [Chapter 4 - THE HUMANITARIAN
  REVOLUTION](CR%21J6889V4X3N78Q8G5R57XPXWC0FK3_split_032.html#filepos432697)
  
  
  [Chapter 5 - THE LONG
  PEACE](CR%21J6889V4X3N78Q8G5R57XPXWC0FK3_split_045.html#filepos620690)
  
  
  [Chapter 6 - THE NEW
  PEACE](CR%21J6889V4X3N78Q8G5R57XPXWC0FK3_split_063.ht