Japan

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...

God's Samurai is the unusual story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the career aviator who led the attack on Pearl Harbor and participated in most of the fiercest battle...

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

Thousands of wounded servicemen returned to Japan following the escalation of Japanese military aggression in China in July 1937. Tens of thousands would re...

Boldly illustrated and superbly translated, Folk Legends from Tono captures the spirit of Japanese peasant culture undergoing rapid transformation into the ...

The United States' involvement in World War II began with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. But for Japan, the conflict began at a m...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Uses Factual Accounts, Short Stories, Photographs, Poems And Drawings To Present The Experiences Of The Atom Bomb SurvivorsCategories: Education & Teach...

This Newly Revised Volume Drawn From Professor Hane's Classic Text, Japan: A Historical Survey, Presents A Rich Account Of Early Japanese History For Studen...

Unconditional Defeat - the second book in a Pacific War trilogy that is part of SR Books' Total War series - examines the concluding stages of World War II...

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

Certain conjunctions of time and place exert a special fascination--Paris in the twenties, turn-of-the-century Vienna, Weimar Berlin. Tokyo in the years bet...

Here is the autobiography of a remarkable man. Yukichi Fukuzawa's life covered the 66 years between 1835 and 1901, a period which comprised greater and mor...

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 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...

JAPANESE ACCENTS IN WESTERN INTERIORS by Peggy Landers Rao and Jean Mahoney, photographs by Toshiaki Sakuma 1988 Third printing hardcover 168 pages Shufunot...

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...

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

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

Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press; illustrated edition edition (May 1988) Language: English ISBN-10: 0824810872 ISBN-13: 978-08248...

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

In 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally to the United States and its allies, thereby planting the seed from which would spring one of the world's most su...

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

Take a colorful tour of Japan's capital with this alternative Japan travel guide that explores Tokyo's distinctive architecture, fashion, food, and so much...

Japanese history.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government International & World PoliticsAsian

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

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...

Japan: Geographical Background to Urban Industrial DevelopmentCategories: History AsiaJapan

The Institute of Pacific Relations was a pioneering intellectual-political organization that shaped public knowledge and both elite and popular discourse th...

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

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

Japan's Informal Empire In China, 1895-1937 : An Overview / Peter Duus -- The Changing Pattern Of Sino-japanese Trade, 1884-1937 / Mizoguchi Toshiyuki -- Ja...

"From its creation in the early twentieth-century, policymakers used the discourse of international law to legitimate Japan's empire. Although the Japanese ...

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

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...

Illuminating A Pivotal Episode In East Asian History, Gordon Mark Berger Offers A Translation, With Informative Historical Notes, Of [japanese Foreign Minis...

Book by Minear, Richard H.Categories: History AsiaJapan

Book by Minear, Richard H.Categories: History AsiaJapan

Provides a comprehensive history of the Near East while also incorporating the most recent scholarship. Ancient China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Readers in...

Text: English, Japanese (translation)Categories: Politics & Social SciencesPolitics & Government

Tony Banham. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [285]-287) And Index.Categories: History EuropeGreat Britain

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...

Examining The Interplay Between Political Apology And Apologetic History Alexis Dudden Focuses On The Problematic Relationship Among Japanese Imperialists, ...