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Popular Democracy in Japan: How Gender and Community Are Changing Modern Electoral Politics by Sherry L. Martin
RRP: £47.00£40.88Popular Democracy in Japan examines a puzzle in Japanese politics: Why do Japanese women turn out to vote at rates higher than men? On the basis of in-depth fieldwork in various parts of the country, Sherry L. Martin argues that the exclusion of women... -
Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo by Nick Kapur
RRP: £36.95£29.73In spring of 1960, Japan's government passed Anpo, a revision of the postwar treaty that allows the United States to maintain a military presence in Japan. This move triggered the largest popular backlash in the nation's modern history. These protests,... -
Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan by Professor Gennifer Weisenfeld
RRP: £48.00£41.52A fascinating look at the anxious pleasures of Japanese visual culture during World War II. Airplanes, gas masks, and bombs were common images in wartime Japan. Yet amid these emblems of anxiety, tasty caramels were offered to children with paper gas... -
Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War by Noriko Kawamura
RRP: £27.99£24.14This reexamination of the controversial role Emperor Hirohito played during the Pacific War gives particular attention to the question: If the emperor could not stop Japan from going to war with the Allied Powers in 1941, why was he able to play a... -
Modern Japan: A Social and Political History Elise Tipton 9781138780859
RRP: £43.99£38.44This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of Modern Japan provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan. Ranging from the Tokugawa period to the present day, Tipton links everyday... -
Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan by E. Patricia Tsurumi
RRP: £35.00£27.74Investigating the enormous contribution made by female textile workers to early industrialization in Meiji Japan, Patricia Tsurumi vividly documents not only their hardships but also their triumphs. While their skills and long hours created profits for... -
Gendering Modern Japanese History by Barbara Molony 9780674028166
RRP: £29.95£24.06In the past quarter-century, gender has emerged as a lively area of inquiry for historians and other scholars, and gender analysis has suggested important revisions of the "master narratives" of national histories-the dominant, often celebratory tales of... -
Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost by Satoko Shimazaki 9780231172271
RRP: £22.00£17.36Satoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater, reframing it as a key player in the formation of an early modern urban identity in Edo Japan and exploring the process that resulted in its re-creation in Tokyo as a national theatrical... -
Samurai Assassins: Dark Murder" and the Meiji Restoration, 1853-1868 by Romulus Hillsborough 9781476668802
RRP: £17.99£14.87Assassination - in Japanese, ansatsu or "dark murder" - was instrumental in the samurai-led revolution known as the Meiji Restoration, by which the shogun's military government was overthrown and the Imperial monarchy restored in 1868. The ideology and... -
Mountbatten's Samurai: Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Forces under British Control in Southeast Asia, 1945-1948 by Stephen B. Connor 9780957630550
£30.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957630550Author Stephen B. ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Seventh CitadelPublisher Seventh Citadel -
The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan by Federico Marcon
RRP: £31.00£30.59Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned the traditional religious and philosophical understandings of the... -
Encyclopedia Japanese Pop Culture by Mark Schilling 9780834803800
RRP: £25.00£24.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780834803800Author Mark SchillingFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Weatherhill IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 591g -
A History of Tokyo 1867-1989: From EDO to SHOWA: The Emergence of the World's Greatest City by Edward Seidensticker
£21.17This is a freaking great book and I highly recommend it... if you are passionate about the history of 'the world's greatest city,' this book is something you must have in your collection. JapanThis.com. Edward Seidensticker's A History of Tokyo... -
The Pocket Samurai by William Scott Wilson
RRP: £8.99£6.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611802160Author William Scott WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
War and State Building in Medieval Japan by John A. Ferejohn
RRP: £18.99£16.72The nation state as we know it is a mere four or five hundred years old. Remarkably, a central government with vast territorial control emerged in Japan at around the same time as it did in Europe, through the process of mobilizing fiscal resources and... -
Japan's Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism by Walter Skya
RRP: £23.99£21.24Japan'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... -
Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society by Victoria Bestor
RRP: £55.99£48.96The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This Handbook provides a... -
South Pacific Air War Volume 4: Buna & Milne Bay June - September 1942 by Michael Claringbould
£20.42Volume Four chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific in the critical period between 19 June and 8 September 1942. It can be read alone or as a continuation of the first three volumes that spanned the first six months of the Pacific War, culminating... -
Armed Martial Arts of Japan: Swordsmanship and Archery by G. Cameron Hurst 9780300116748
£28.51This unique history of Japanese armed martial arts-the only comprehensive treatment of the subject in English-focuses on traditions of swordsmanship and archery from ancient times to the present. G. Cameron Hurst III provides an overview of martial arts... -
Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan by Michael Wert
RRP: £17.95£14.60This book is about the "losers" of the Meiji Restoration and the supporters who promoted their legacy. Although the violence of the Meiji Restoration is typically downplayed, the trauma was real, and those who felt marginalized from the mainstream... -
The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War by George Hicks 9780393316940
RRP: £20.00£16.56Over 100,000 women across Asia were victims of enforced prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Forces during World War II. Until as recently as 1993 the Japanese government continued to deny this shameful aspect of its wartime history. George Hicks's book... -
The Nagasaki British Consulate: 1859-1955 by Brian Burke-Gaffney 9784990824013
RRP: £5.55£5.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784990824013Author Brian Burke-GaffneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Flying Crane PressPublisher Flying Crane PressWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)... -
The Karate Way by Dave Lowry
RRP: £19.99£12.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590306475Author Dave LowryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga's Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan by Thomas D. Conlan
RRP: £22.99£18.06In Little Need of Divine Intervention presents a fundamental revision of the thirteenth-century Mongol Invasions of Japan by revealing that the warriors of medieval Japan were capable of fighting the Mongols to a standstill without the aid of any "divine... -
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War by Jeremy A. Yellen
RRP: £108.00£93.80"The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere offers a lucid, dynamic, and highly readable history of Japan's attempt to usher in a new order in Asia during World War II." Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review In The Greater East Asia... -
Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentation, and Power in Japan and Other Societies by Joy Hendry 9780198280286
£117.82Wrapping Culture is concerned with problems of intercultural communication and the possibilities for misinterpretation of the familiar in an unfamiliar context. Starting with an examination of gift-wrapping, Joy Hendry demonstrates how our expectations... -
Japan: A Short Cultural History by George Sansom 9780804709545
RRP: £35.00£31.14Japan: A Short Cultural History was first published in 1931 by the Cresset Press in London and D. Appleton in New York. Writing in the Journal of American Oriental Society in 1959, Edwin O. Reischauer, Harvard professor and leading scholar in Japanese... -
The Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family by Sterling Seagrave 9780767904971
RRP: £23.00£16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767904971Author Sterling SeagraveFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm)... -
The Invasion of the South: Army Air Force Operations, and the Invasion of Northern and Central Sumatra by Wim Remmelink
£82.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087283667Author Wim RemmelinkFormat HardbackPage Count 518Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press -
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 by Donald Keene
RRP: £88.00£69.75When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in the main, cut off from the outside world, staunchly... -
Revisiting Japan's Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation Timothy Amos (National University of Singapore, Singapore) 9781032075785
RRP: £36.99£32.53This volume presents the reader with thirty-one short chapters that capture an exciting new moment in the study of the Meiji Restoration. The chapters offer a kaleidoscope of approaches and interpretations of the Restoration that showcase the strengths... -
A History of Popular Culture in Japan: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present E. Taylor Atkins (Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, Northern Illinois University, USA) 9781350195929
RRP: £24.99£23.26The phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in... -
March Was Made of Yarn: Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown by Elmer Luke 9780307948861
RRP: £14.99£12.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307948861Author Elmer LukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204g -
Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation by Ju rgen P. Melzer 9780674244429
RRP: £26.95£21.81The history of Japanese aviation offers countless stories of heroic achievements and dismal failures, passionate enthusiasm and sheer terror, brilliant ideas and fatally flawed strategies.In Wings for the Rising Sun, scholar and former airline pilot... -
Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
RRP: £25.99£24.03The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director's cinema,... -
Yogaku: Japanese Music in the 20th Century by Luciana Galliano 9780810843257
RRP: £110.00£96.43"This book introduces us to the world of contemporary Japanese music and it guides us towards a better understanding of their world."-Luciano Berio Yogaku discusses over a century of musical activity in Japan, detailing, in particular, the music that... -
Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan by Timothy S. George
RRP: £24.95£20.29Nearly forty years after the outbreak of the "Minamata Disease," it remains one of the most horrific examples of environmental poisoning. Based on primary documents and interviews, this book describes three rounds of responses to this incidence of... -
Samurai: The Unnamed Island by Jean-Francois Di Giorgio
RRP: £13.99£7.10Having escaped from the clutches of the 13th Prophet, Takeo, the young Samurai, is free to continue with his quest to find out who he is. His journey leads him to an unnamed island, where he hopes to find his missing brother. Instead, he finds a place... -
Patriots and Redeemers in Japan: Motives in the Meiji Restoration by George M. Wilson 9780226900926
RRP: £28.00£27.39In this concise but ambitious historiographical essay, Wilson argues for an approach to the Meiji Restoration that emphasizes multiple lines of motive and action. "By bringing some very interesting critical theory to his reading, Wilson has produced a... -
Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism by Koichi Iwabuchi
RRP: £21.99£19.19Globalization is usually thought of as the worldwide spread of Western-particularly American-popular culture. Yet if one nation stands out in the dissemination of pop culture in East and Southeast Asia, it is Japan. Pokemon, anime, pop music, television...