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Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo by Janet Borland 9780674247833
RRP: £26.95£21.41Japan, as recent history has powerfully illustrated, is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries. Today it is also one of the best prepared to face such seismic risk. This was not always the case.Earthquake Children is the first book to examine... -
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley 9781501188527
RRP: £28.00£16.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Pulitzer Prize (Biography) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781501188527Author Amy StanleyFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher... -
Coins, Trade, and the State: Economic Growth in Early Medieval Japan by Ethan Isaac Segal 9780674060685
RRP: £33.95£27.41Framed by the decline of the Heian aristocracy in the late 1100s and the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate in the early 1600s, Japan's medieval era was a chaotic period of diffuse political power and frequent military strife. This instability prevented... -
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922 by Phillips O'Brien
RRP: £53.99£46.87The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was the first formal agreement of its type reached by a Western 'great' power with a non-Caucasian nation in the modern era. As such, it represented an important milestone diplomatically, strategically and culturally. This... -
The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan by Simon Partner
RRP: £25.00£19.59In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chuemon left his old life behind. Chuemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with... -
Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai, Abridged Edition Mark Teeuwen 9780231182775
RRP: £30.00£27.39By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent economic and social stresses, the country seemed headed for a new period of growth. The idea that the shogunate would not... -
47: The True Story of the Vendetta of the 47 Ronin from Ako by Thomas Harper
RRP: £26.95£18.66Apologies 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 -
The Remarkable History of the Yagyu Clan by William De Lange 9789492722171
RRP: £24.99£24.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492722171Author William De LangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Toyo PressPublisher Toyo PressWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm -
The Connoisseurs Book Of Japanese Swords by Kokan Nagayama
RRP: £75.00£42.07This comprehensive guide to the appreciation and appraisal of the blades of Japanese swords still offers an English translation of a definitive Japanese text on the subject. Taking the practical historical approach, it discusses each tradition, examining... -
The Emergence of Modern Japan: An Introductory History Since 1853 by Janet Hunter 9780582494084
RRP: £54.99£52.48The main emphasis of this book is upon political, social and economic developments, as conditioned by Japan's interaction with the outside world, the advance of industrialisation and the emergence of the Japanese nation state.Unlike previous textbooks on... -
The Social Life of Kimono: Japanese Fashion Past and Present by Sheila Cliffe
£29.73The kimono is an iconic garment with a history as rich and colourful as the textiles from which it is crafted. Deeply associated with Japanese culture both past and present, it has often been thought of as a highly gendered, rigidly traditional and... -
Japan: The Intellectual Foundations by Tetsuo Najita 9780226568034
RRP: £27.00£26.47Historians have long been aware of the richness and complexity of the intellectual history of modern Japanese politics. Najita's study, however, is the first in a Western language to present a consistent and broad synthesis of this subject. Najita... -
Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool by Nancy K. Stalker 9780520287778
RRP: £30.00£23.29Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool provides a historical account of Japan's elite and popular cultures from premodern to modern periods. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship across numerous disciplines, Nancy K. Stalker presents the... -
Yoshiwara: The Glittering World of the Japanese Courtesan by Cecilia Segawa Seigle 9780824814885
RRP: £46.95£44.89Drawing on both historical and literary sources, examines life in the pleasure houses of Japan during the Edo period from the early 1600s to 1868. Among the topics are the origins, illegal competitors, the cost of a visit, the treatment of the... -
Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan by Max M. Ward
RRP: £22.99£20.01In Thought Crime Max M. Ward explores the Japanese state's efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Ward traces the evolution of an antiradical law called the Peace Preservation Law, from its initial application to suppress... -
Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945 by Kerim Yasar 9780231187138
RRP: £28.00£21.80Long before karaoke's ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and contributed to new cultural forms. In Electrified Voices, Kerim Yasar traces the origins of the modern... -
The Rape of Nanking: The Nanjing Massacre That Occurred during the Second Sino-Japanese War by Captivating History 9781637163214
RRP: £22.99£14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637163214Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)... -
Buddhas and Kami in Japan: Honji Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm Fabio Rambelli 9781138965164
RRP: £45.99£40.53This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known as honji suijaku (originals and their traces). It questions received, simplified accounts of the interactions... -
The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers, and Warriors in Premodern Japan by Mikael Adolphson 9780824823344
RRP: £31.95£31.23The political influences of temples in pre-modern Japan, most clearly manifested in divine demonstrations - where rowdy monks and shrine servants brought holy symbols to the capital to exert pressure on courtiers - has traditionally been condemned and is... -
Hidden Atrocities: Japanese Germ Warfare and American Obstruction of Justice at the Tokyo Trial by Jeanne Guillemin
RRP: £30.00£23.69In the aftermath of World War II, the Allied intent to bring Axis crimes to light led to both the Nuremberg trial and its counterpart in Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. Yet the Tokyo trial failed to prosecute Imperial Japanese... -
Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan's Colonial Peoples by Kirsten L. Ziomek 9780674237285
RRP: £29.95£23.66A grandson's photo album. Old postcards. English porcelain. A granite headstone. These are just a few of the material objects that help reconstruct the histories of colonial people who lived during Japan's empire. These objects, along with oral histories... -
Anti-Japan: The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia by Leo T. S. Ching
RRP: £19.99£17.54Although the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imperial exploits continue to haunt Korea, China, and Taiwan. In Anti-Japan Leo T. S. Ching traces the complex dynamics... -
Uneven Moments: Reflections on Japan's Modern History by Harry Harootunian 9780231190213
RRP: £30.00£23.29Few scholars have done more than Harry Harootunian to shape the study of modern Japan. Incorporating Marxist critical perspectives on history and theoretically informed insights, his scholarship has been vitally important for the world of Asian studies... -
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War by Jeremy A. Yellen 9781501768262
RRP: £27.99£24.14"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... -
Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and Its Discontents by Hiromu Nagahara
RRP: £35.95£28.96In this first English-language history of the origins and impact of the Japanese pop music industry, Hiromu Nagahara connects the rise of mass entertainment, epitomized by ryukoka ("popular songs"), with Japan's transformation into a middle-class society... -
The Affair of the Madre de Deus: A Chapter in the History of the Portuguese in Japan. by C. R. Boxer
£111.61The fact that the Portuguese opened up the Far East to European maritime enterprise is well known, but the prosperity to which their trade attained in that region is less so, as historians have tended to dwell on the English or Dutch activities. The... -
The American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia by Michael Schaller 9780195051902
RRP: £19.99£13.33Michael Schaller argues that the reconstruction of postwar Japan not only shaped the future of that country, but also the future of U.S. policy throughout postwar Asia, leading up to the controversial interventions in China, Korea, and Vietnam. In this... -
The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century by Peter Kornicki 9780824823375
RRP: £36.95£35.57The ten chapters of this exemplary monograph cover every major aspect of the book in traditional Japan: its place in Japanese history; books as material objects; manuscript cultures; printing; the Edo period book trade; authors and readers; importation... -
The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945 by Peter Duus 9780691145068
RRP: £35.00£28.14With this book the editors complete the three-volume series on modern Japanese colonialism and imperialism that began with The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945 (Princeton, 1983) and The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937 (Princeton, 1989)... -
Haiku Before Haiku: From the Renga Masters to Basho by Steven D. Carter
RRP: £22.00£17.36While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four hundred years before Basho even began to write. These... -
Forty-Seven Samurai: A Tale of Vengeance & Death in Haiku and Letters by Hiroaki Sato
RRP: £14.99£9.88A remarkable and true tale of loyalty, vengeance, and ritual suicide. . . . In the spring of 1701, the regional lord Asano Naganori wounded his supervising official, Kira Yoshinaka, during an important ceremony in the ruling shogunate's Edo Castle and... -
Readings in Chinese Literary Thought by Stephen Owen 9780674749214
RRP: £33.95£28.41This dual-language compilation of seven complete major works and many shorter pieces from the Confucian period through the Ch'ing dynasty will be indispensable to students of Chinese literature. Stephen Owen's masterful translations and commentaries have... -
Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan by Giles Milton 9781250778253
RRP: £19.00£11.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250778253Author Giles MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 132mm * 28mm -
A Japanese View of Nature: The World of Living Things by Kinji Imanishi Kinji Imanishi 9780700716326
RRP: £43.99£38.44Although Seibutsu no Sekai (The World of Living Things), the seminal 1941 work of Kinji Imanishi, had an enormous impact in Japan, both on scholars and on the general public, very little is known about it in the English-speaking world. This book makes... -
The Fall of Language in the Age of English by Minae Mizumura 9780231163033
RRP: £22.00£17.36Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United... -
The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales by Haruo Shirane 9780231152457
RRP: £20.00£18.19Burton Watson and Haruo Shirane, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese anecdotal (setsuwa) literature. These orally narrated and written tales drew on both local folk... -
Routledge Handbook of Premodern Japanese History by Karl F. Friday 9780367581237
RRP: £43.99£38.84Scholarship on premodern Japan has grown spectacularly over the past four decades, in terms of both sophistication and volume. A new approach has developed, marked by a higher reliance on primary documents, a shift away from the history of elites to... -
Fallacies in the Allied Nations' Historical Perception as Observed by a British Journalist by Henry Scott Stokes 9780761868095
RRP: £30.00£26.68In 1941, Imperial Japan rapidly brought an end to the British Empire in Asia. Because a non-white race dared to upset the white colonialists' status quo in Asia, the British resented the Japanese long after the war. Mr. Henry Scott-Stokes states that he... -
Japan in the Muromachi Age by Hall 9781885445094
RRP: £22.99£18.76The Muromachi age may well emerge in the eyes of historians as one of the most seminal periods in Japanese history. So concluded the participants in the 1973 Conference on Japan. The proceedings, as edited for this volume, reveal this new interpretation... -
Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World by Aaron Herald Skabelund
RRP: £24.99£21.67In 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...