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From his military and student days to his transition to a salaryman and sportswriter, the book is a warts-and-all account that serves up a colorful menagerie of characters, from politicians to professional wrestlers.\"\u003cbr\u003e—The Japan Times\u003cbr\u003e\"With a patter that lands like readers have pulled up a barstool to hear a traveler’s yarns... Whiting’s love for his adopted city remains constant and contagious in this collage-style survey.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\"A rich and beautifully written book that will never let you down as you read through to the end; a splendid account of a remarkable life in a fabulous city.\"\u003cbr\u003e—The Asia Times\u003cbr\u003e\"Whiting's memoir is packed with insights and extremely funny in places. Historians of the postwar period will learn much about the nexus of politics, money, media and organized crime that helped fuel Japan's phoenix-like rise from the ashes of defeat. [Robert Whiting] is probably the only person on the planet capable of telling us what it was like to be there at that particular moment in time.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Nikkei Asia\u003cbr\u003e\"Robert Whiting’s personal narrative of life in Tokyo offers a compelling study of the society in with which he has thrown his lot.\"\u003cbr\u003e—South China Morning Post\u003cbr\u003e\"Tokyo Junkie is a tale of an American transplant in a booming Asian metropolis. Insightful and humorous, its assorted essays recount the people and events that have shaped Japan’s capital and the author over six decades.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Nippon.com\u003cbr\u003e\"Tokyo Junkie is the hugely engaging and occasionally very funny memoir of a Tokyo insider who has grabbed all the excitement the city has to offer. 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Although much has been written about modern Japan, no reference book has analyzed its political, economic, social, and cultural history to render a holistic account of the sweeping changes Japan has undergone since 1850. Now, with \u003ci\u003eThe Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History,\u003c\/i\u003e Gary D. 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Specialists of China, Japan, comparative colonialism, and World War II diplomacy will find this well-conceived and carefully researched and organized work of first-rate importance to the understanding of modern Japanese history in general and Japanese imperialism in particular.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Barbara Brooks has written a highly original study of Japanese policy toward China before the war. This good diplomatic history with the addition of a great deal of social history, making it unique among studies of modern Japanese foreign affairs.\" --Akira Iriye, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An excellent study of Japan's prewar foreign ministry, especially the Chinese specialists within the ministry. 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Strategies For Modernizing: On The Nature Of Western Progress: The Journal Of The Iwakura Embassy \/ Eugene Soviak -- Westernization And Japanization: The Early Meiji Transformation Of Education \/ Michio Nagai -- The Japanization Of The Middle Meiji \/ Donald H. Shively -- The Sin-japanese War Of 1894-95 And Its Cultural Effects On Japan \/ Donald Keene -- Pt. 2. The Arts In The Meiji Period: Western Style Painting In The Early Meiji Period And Its Critics \/ John M. Rosenfield -- The Formation Of Realism In Meiji Painting: The Artistic Career Of Takahashi Yuichi \/ Tōru Haga -- The Modern Music Of Meiji Japan \/ William P. Malm -- Pt. 3. The Search For Identity In Literature: Natsume Sōseki And The Psychological Novel \/ Howard S. Hibbett -- Tōson And The Autobiographical Novel \/ Edwin Mcclellan -- Masaoka Shiki And Tanka Reform \/ Robert H. Brower -- Kobayashi Hideo \/ Edward Seidensticker -- Fukuda Tsuneari: Modernization And Shingeki \/ Benito Ortolani -- Pt. 4. Philosophy, Religion, And Language: Nishida Kitarō: The Early Years \/ Valdo Humbert Viglielmo -- Millenarian Aspects Of The New Religions In Japan \/ Carmen Blacker -- Levels Of Speech (keigo) And The Japanese Linguistic Response To Modernization \/ Roy Andrew Miller. Edited By Donald H. Shively. Contributors: Carmen Blacker [and Others] Papers From The Fifth Seminar Of The Conference On Modern Japan, Held In Puerto Rico, January, 1966. 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Oe’s account of the lives of the many victims of Hiroshima and the valiant efforts of those who cared for them, both immediately after the atomic blast and in the years that follow, reveals the horrific extent of the devastation. It is a heartrending portrait of a ravaged city — the “human face” in the midst of nuclear destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Publishers Weekly \u003cp\u003eJapanese novelist Oe, who won a Nobel Prize in 1994, wrote these searching essays between 1963 and 1965, when he made frequent visits to the rebuilt city of Hiroshima and interviewed survivors. The collection, now reissued on the 50th anniversary of the bombing, examines the moral and political implications of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Oe explores how A-bomb survivors maintained their dignity despite shattered health resulting from radiation exposure. He writes about the courage of Hiroshima's doctors and nurses who engaged in emergency efforts despite their own afflictions. 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The Early Years -- The Advent And Assimilation Of Chinese Civilization -- The Heian Period: The Age Of Court Aristocracy -- The Kamakura Period: The Triumph Of The Samurai -- The Ashikaga Period: The Emergence Of The Daimyō -- The Restoration Of Order -- The Early Tokugawa Period -- Intellectual And Cultural Developments In Tokugawa Japan -- The Late Tokugawa Period -- The Fall Of The Tokugawa Bakufu. Mikiso Hane. Rev. Ed. Of: Japan, A Historical Survey. 1972. 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