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Urawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan | 
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| Author: Lisa Katayama
Creator: Joel Holland
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $8.58
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 23131
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0811862151
Dewey Decimal Number: 640.410952
EAN: 9780811862158
ASIN: 0811862151
Publication Date: April 2, 2008
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Product Description
Japan has a way of thinking that is just . . . different. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Tokyo-born journalist Lisa Katayama's collection of urawaza (a Japanese word for secret lifestyle tricks and techniques). Want to turbocharge your sled? Spray the bottom with nonstick cooking spray. Can't find someone to water your plants while you're away? Place the plant on a water-soaked diaper, so it slowly absorbs water over time. The subject of popular TV shows and numerous books in Japan, these unusually clever solutions to everyday problems have never before been published in English until now! Urawaza collects more than 100 once-secret tricks, offering step-by-step directions and explanations in an eye-catching package as unconventional as its contents.
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| Customer Reviews:
Entertaining and totally useful! May 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Love learning the super creative ways to be more efficient in every day living. I think this would also would make a cool & unique gift too.
This book changed my life April 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
These tips allowed me to carry heavier things, improve my karaoke skills, eliminate excess beer foam, overclock my car battery and cure my hiccups. The tips and the instructions on how they work are so fascinating that they lodge in the mind easily--I may not need to know how to remove gum from someone's hair for five or ten years...but if I ever need to do it, I'll remember the Urawaza method.
Clever, useful and fun tricks April 1, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Urawaza contains dozens of cool tricks, everyday inspirations and ways to impress your friends and family by cleverly doing things better.
I have tried several of the tips. My faves are using a piece of bread to pick up glass (pg. 70)--works like a charm! This weekend I made potato salad and used the super-cool egg-peeling technique (p. 96) and impressed my BBQ guests!
Urawaza is a fun guide that appeals to that part within us all that likes to simultaneously be clever & practical. The book also couples simple scientific explanations that help us understand more about our environment through. It will be a hit with Japanese culture fans, DIY enthusiasts, those who appreciate Everyman wisdom and especially young folks who enjoy exploring our world in new ways.
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