Japan

'meticulously Researched And Beautifully Written, The True Story Of A Japanese American Family That Found Itself On Opposite Sides During World War Ii--an E...

The tragic true story of Japan's Crown Princess-with a new afterword by the author. It's the fantasy of many young women: marry a handsome prince, move i...

Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following ...

In this audiobook, veteran journalist Hedges challenges the Christian Rights religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled...

A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Fourth Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two cent...

Tetsuya Kataoka. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government International & Worl...

Leiter (theater, Brooklyn College and CUNY) presents the first English-language collection of disparate essays exploring Japan's kabuki theater. Fifteen of ...

1978. Author: Brandon, Malm, Shively. Publisher: University of Hawaii Press. 198 pages. Paperback.Categories: Literature & Fiction World Literatur...

“This lively, provocative study challenges the widely held belief that the Japanese did not intend to invade the Hawaiian Islands.” ―Choice“A disqui...

gregory Kasza Examines State-society Relations In Interwar Japan Through A Case Study Of Public Policy Toward Radio, Film, Newspapers, And Magazines. Cate...

"In this collection of seventeen essays, leading scholars address the question of what kind and what degree of change accompanied the political events known...

The Russo-japanese War And The Peace Conference That Followed It At Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Marked A Turning Point In The History Of Both Participants An...

How did Buddhism, so prominent in Japanese life for over a thousand years, become the target of severe persecution in the social and political turmoil of th...

For more than half a century, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimusho) possessed an independent police force that operated within the space of Ja...

Edited By John W. Hall And Jeffrey P. Mass ; Contributors, David L. Davis ... [et Al.]. Originally Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1974. Inclu...

This Work Analyzes Events Surrounding The Yokohama Incident (1942-1945), Which Led To The Arrest Of Dozens Of Journalists And Researchers In Japan During Th...

The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Michael A. Barnhart t...

Book by Minear, Richard H.Categories: History AsiaJapan

this Is A Fascinating Analysis Of The Meaning Of Rice As A Symbol Of Personal And Particularly Of Social Identity In Japanese Culture.--robert N. Bellah o...

Book by Minear, Richard H.Categories: History AsiaJapan

This lucid, hard-hitting book explores a central paradox of the Japanese economy: the relegation of women to low-paying, dead-end jobs in a workforce that d...

Only now can the full scope of the war in the Pacific be fully understood. Historian Ronald Spector, drawing on newly declassified intelligence files, an ...

A documented survey of the customs and social conditions of the four traditional classes of Japanese society from 1600 to 1850Categories: History AsiaJapan ...

Ezra F. Vogel. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 259-265.Categories: History AsiaJapan

It Has Been Fifty Years Since Japan Admitted Defeat And Accepted The Terms Of The Potsdam Declaration Following World War Ii. At The Time, Japan Was In Sham...

Ben-ami Shillony. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [210]-229.Categories: History AsiaJapan

Jansen Covers The Making Of The Modern State, The Adaptation Of Western Models, Growing International Trade, The Broadening Opportunity In Japanese Society ...

Andrew Gordon. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 363-370) And Index.Categories: HistoryWorld

Gary D. Allinson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [195]-201) And Index.Categories: History AsiaJapan

On the centennial of the peace treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, Dartmouth College hosted a conference to examine the background and makin...

A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Second Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two cent...

John W. Dower, Timothy S. George. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Reference Writing, Research & Publishing Guides Publishing &...

This balanced account of Japanese history focuses on developments in art, religion, literature, and thought as well as economic, political, and social histo...

The Fall Of The Tokugawa Order, 1800-1868. Late Tokugawa Society -- The Political Heritage -- Economic And Social Change -- The Fall Of The Old Order -- The...

The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is a collection of short biographies of ordinary Japanese men and women, most of them unknown outside their family and l...

Preface -- Part 1-traditional Japan-1.1-land And People-1.2-the Adoptions Of The Chinese Pattern-1.3-the Development Of A Native Culture-1.4-the Birth Of A ...

Western readers gain a basic understanding of Japanese political and social development and organization since the late fifth centuryCategories: History Asi...

Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe’s account of the li...

First, there are questions concerning the role and relative importance of internal and external factors in the pattern of events. Did the activities of the...

Examines Japanese thought through the traditions of Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism, liberalism, nationalism, and socialism from earliest times to the presen...

Vol. I. The Earliest Records Of Japan -- Early Shinto -- Prince Shōtoku And His Constitution -- Chinese Thought And Institutions In Early Japan -- Nara Bud...

Pt. 1. Strategies For Modernizing: On The Nature Of Western Progress: The Journal Of The Iwakura Embassy / Eugene Soviak -- Westernization And Japanization:...

In November 1937, Ishii Itaro, head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Bureau of Asiatic Affairs, reflected bitterly on the decline of the ministry's influ...

Introduction: Choice And Consequence / James William Morley -- Pt. 1. Political And Military: The Bureaucracy As A Political Force, 1920-45 / Robert M. Spau...

An entertaining and thorough introduction to all things Japanese. Much has been written about Japanese management. But this is the first book to explain the...

Whether you travel for business, pleasure, or a combination of the two, the ever-popular "Culture Shock!" series belongs in your backpack or briefcase. Get...

The definitive account of the wartime history of Hong Kong On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese c...

Japan's transformation from an isolated society to a military empire and, after a crushing defeat in World War II, into one of the world's foremost economi...