Japan

In 1614 the shogunate prohibited Christianity amidst rumors of foreign plots to conquer Japan. But more than the fear of armed invasions, it was the ideological threat--or "spiritual conquest"--that the Edo shogunate feared the most. This book explores...

The 1894-95 war between China and Japan, known in the West as the First Sino-Japanese War, lasted only nine months, but its impact resonates today. The Chinese Beiyang (Northern) Fleet was led by her flagship, Dingyuan, and her sister ship, Zhenyuan,...

The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII aircraft profiles to date of Japanese & Allied aircraft in the Pacific theatre.Volume Two illustrates, by unit, Japanese Army Air Force (JAAF) bomber and other supporting aircraft types...

Should we care about Japan anymore? It has a long history and a rich artistic heritage; kids today can't seem to get enough of its popular culture; and it is supposed to be America's number one ally in Asia-Pacific. But Washington treats the place with...

The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History is a concise overview of modern Japanese history from the middle of the nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century. Written by a group of international historians, each an authority in his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590302453Author Thomas ClearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506720999Author Hiroaki SamuraFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918172778Author Thomas HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 992Imprint Leetes Island BooksPublisher Leetes Island BooksWeight(grams) 1361g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398840775Author Inazo NitobeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius EntertainmentWeight(grams) 989gDimensions(mm) 254mm...

In the Presence of Gods and Spirits brings to life the early nineteenth-century Japanese religious leader and scholar Hirata Atsutane, whose fear of Russian incursion onto Japan's soil led him to redefine what it means to be Japanese. Atsutane advocated...

In the Presence of Gods and Spirits brings to life the early nineteenth-century Japanese religious leader and scholar Hirata Atsutane, whose fear of Russian incursion onto Japan's soil led him to redefine what it means to be Japanese. Atsutane advocated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083922Author Lesley DownerFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street PublishingWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm)...

Against the background of the prolonged US military presence in post-World War II Okinawa, The Community of Nuchi Du Takara ("Life Is the Ultimate Treasure") in Postwar Okinawa explores the conflict between Okinawa and the US-Japan alliance. Developing...

In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his return to Shibuya Station. In May 1925 Ueno died while giving a lecture. Every day for over nine years the...

Hailed at the time of its publication in 1969, Bill Hosokawa's Nisei remains an inspiring account of the original Japanese immigrants and their role in the development of the West. Hosokawa recounts the ordeals faced by the immigrant generation and their...

This introduction to life and culture in Japan presents a captivating portrait of the island nation, home to 127 million people and one of the most robust economies in the world.This volume focuses on an often misunderstood nation with vast economic and...

This indispensable one-volume narrative examines the history, culture, environment, economy, politics, future, and more of the city of Tokyo, Japan's political and cultural capital.Tokyo has endured and moved beyond horrible disasters in the 20th...

This edited volume assembles a wide array of writings by Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke, one of 20th-century Japan's foremost intellectuals, translated for the first time into English. It begins with an introduction by the editors, Seth Jacobowitz and Aaron...

Nearly half a century ago, the economic historian Harold Innis pointed out that the geographical limits of empires were determined by communications and that, historically, advances in the technologies of transport and communications have enabled empires...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888876853Author Yoshiko NakanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press

Through essays on its key players, detailed original maps, and a narrative drawn from contemporary Italian and Latin sources never before translated into English, A Japanese Mission to 17th Century Rome: Date Masamune's Cosmopolitan Dream presents a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802701838Author HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press

The Dialectics of Absolute Nothingness investigates the appropriations, critiques, and innovative interpretations of German philosophy by the Kyoto School, showing how central concepts of German philosophical traditions found a place within non-Western...

At the end of the 19th century, Japanese modernizers abandoned the traditional Chinese-style medicine that had dominated for centuries, and turned instead to Western medical theory and practice. In this book, Ellen Gardner Nakamura reconsiders the story...

Japan's oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pushing the shore under the rush of tsunami, charging typhoon circulation, feeding millions, and seeding conflicts over territory and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083632Author Lesley DownerFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing

Cultures of Modernity and the U.S.-Japan Cold War Alliance reconsiders the origins of postwar U.S.-Japan relations by focusing on "modernization" ideologies that the Americans and the Japanese shared in the 1940s-early 1950s. Mobilizing a wealth of...

Scholarship on Japan’s development from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century has, perhaps quite understandably, been dominated by attention given to Japan’s emergence as a world power through a succession of military conflicts, and...

Japan's Holy War reveals how a radical religious ideology drove the Japanese to imperial expansion and global war. Bringing to light a wealth of new information, Walter A. Skya demonstrates that whatever other motives the Japanese had for waging war in...

In Waste, Eiko Maruko Siniawer innovatively explores the many ways in which the Japanese have thought about waste-in terms of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resources-from the immediate aftermath of World War II to the present. She shows how...

Winner of the 2022 Hagley Prize in Business History Finalist of the 2023 International Convention for Asian Scholars Book Prize in the Social Sciences In A Medicated Empire, Timothy M. Yang explores the history of Japan's pharmaceutical industry in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472077076Author Jun'ichi IsomaeFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472057078Author Jun'ichi IsomaeFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

The author argues that interactions between the movement and US Cold Warriors had a profound and lasting impact on Japanese society and Japan-US relations.About the AuthorNaoko Koda is associate professor at Kindai University.ReviewsIn the era following...

Through Japanese Eyes shows us Japanese history and society through the eyes of a wide variety of Japanese (and a few non-Japanese) observers - male and female, young and old, novelists, poets, and journalists. With an emphasis on young people and their...

The Meji Japanese Who Made Modern Taiwan describes the story of Japan's involvement and administration of Taiwan in the pre-war era, with a focus on the period from 1895, when Taiwan was made a part of the Japanese Empire, to 1945, when the Pacific War...

Takeyama Michio, the author of Harp of Burma, was thirty-seven in 1941, the year of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Husband, father of children born during the war, and teacher at Japan's elite school of higher education in Tokyo, he experienced the...

Friendly Connections: Philadelphia Quakers and Japan since the Late Nineteenth Century discloses the history of relations among members of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, of Philadelphia and Japanese intellectuals, educators, and activists...

This book examines early modern Mito, today an ordinary provincial capital on the outskirts of the Tokyo commuter belt, but once the headquarters of Mito Domain, one of the most consequential places in all of Japan. As one of just three senior branches...

Given that engineering significantly affects modern society, ensuring its reliability is essential. How then should society implement engineering ethics to ensure its reliability? Can we expect engineering ethics to be nurtured naturally in the practice...