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Islands of Eight Million Smiles: Idol Performance and Symbolic Production in Contemporary Japan Hiroshi Aoyagi 9780674017733
£43.36Since the late 1960s a ubiquitous feature of popular culture in Japan has been the "idol," an attractive young actor, male or female, packaged and promoted as an adolescent role model and exploited by the entertainment, fashion, cosmetic, and publishing... -
Asia and Postwar Japan: Deimperialization, Civic Activism, and National Identity by Simon Avenell
RRP: £54.95£43.66War, defeat, and the collapse of empire in 1945 touched every aspect of postwar Japanese society, profoundly shaping how the Japanese would reconstruct national identity and reengage with the peoples of Asia. While "America" offered a vision of... -
Reading The Tale of Genji: Sources from the First Millennium by Thomas L. Harper 9780231166584
RRP: £62.00£56.17The Tale of Genji, written one thousand years ago, is a masterpiece of Japanese literature, is often regarded as the best prose fiction in the language. Read, commented on, and reimagined by poets, scholars, dramatists, artists, and novelists, the tale... -
Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan Denis Gainty 9781138121010
RRP: £53.99£46.87In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association (Dainippon Butokukai) held its first annual Martial Virtue Festival (butokusai) in the ancient capital of Kyoto. The Festival marked the arrival of a new iteration of modern Japan, as the... -
Postmodernism and Japan by Masao Miyoshi
RRP: £22.99£20.01Postmodernism and Japan is a coherent yet diverse study of the dynamics of postmodernism, as described by Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Guatarri, from the often startling perspective of a society bent on transforming itself into the image of Western... -
The Second Sino-Japanese War: A Captivating Guide to Military Conflict That Began between China and Japan, Including Events Such as the Japanese Invasion of Manchuria and the Nanjing Massacre by Captivating History 9781647484033
RRP: £19.97£12.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647484033Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)... -
Japan in World History by James L. Huffman 9780195368086
RRP: £25.99£19.69Here is a page-turning, compact history of Japan from earliest times to the present, with a focus on its often tempestuous, often creative relationships with other countries. The book ranges from Japan's prehistoric interactions with Korea and China, to... -
History of Japan: A Captivating Guide to Japanese History, Including Events Such as the Genpei War, Mongol Invasions, Battle of Tsushima, and Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Captivating History 9781647480875
RRP: £29.99£18.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647480875Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 345g -
Japan After Japan: Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present by Tomiko Yoda
RRP: £24.99£22.07The prolonged downturn in the Japanese economy that began during the recessionary 1990s triggered a complex set of reactions both within Japan and abroad, reshaping not only the country's economy but also its politics, society, and culture. In Japan... -
The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 by Donald Keene
RRP: £23.99£20.84This is an account of the growth and uses of Western learning in Japan from 1720 to 1830. These are the dates of the beginning of official interest in Western learning and of the expulsion of Siebold from the country, the first stage of a crisis that... -
Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident by Kate Wildman Nakai
RRP: £30.00£23.29In 1829, three women and three men were paraded through Osaka and crucified. Placards set up at the execution ground proclaimed their crime: they were devotees of the "pernicious creed" of Christianity. Middle-aged widows, the women made a living as... -
The Musha Incident: A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan by Michael Berry
RRP: £30.00£27.39On October 27, 1930, members of six Taiwanese indigenous groups ambushed the Japanese attendees of an athletic competition at the Musha Elementary School, killing 134. The uprising came as a shock to Japanese colonial authorities, whose response was... -
Hokkaido: A History of Ethnic Transition and Development on Japan's Northern Island Ann B. Irish 9780786444496
RRP: £39.99£33.98Japanese people have lived on the country's other three main islands--Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku--for many centuries, but ethnic Japanese, or Wajin, began coming to Hokkaido in large numbers only in the latter half of the nineteenth century. This... -
Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation by Christopher Gerteis
RRP: £34.00£29.89In Mobilizing Japanese Youth, Christopher Gerteis examines how non-state institutions in Japan-left-wing radicals and right-wing activists-attempted to mold the political consciousness of the nation's first postwar generation, which by the late 1960s... -
Imaginative Mapping: Landscape and Japanese Identity in the Tokugawa and Meiji Eras by Nobuko Toyosawa 9780674241121
RRP: £50.95£40.56Landscape has always played a vital role in shaping Japan's cultural identity. Imaginative Mapping analyzes how intellectuals of the Tokugawa and Meiji eras used specific features and aspects of the landscape to represent their idea of Japan and produce... -
Captive in Japan by Vasily Golovnin 9789492722256
RRP: £19.99£17.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492722256Author Vasily GolovninFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Toyo PressPublisher Toyo PressWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm -
Japan and the Wider World: From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present by Akira Iriye 9780582210530
£38.54Akira Iriye assesses Japan's international relations, from a Japanese perspective, in the century and a half since she ended her self-imposed isolation and resumed her place in the international community. The book is the author's own adaptation of two... -
The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States by Brad Glosserman
RRP: £22.00£17.36Japan and South Korea are Western-style democracies with open-market economies committed to the rule of law. They are also U.S. allies. Yet despite their shared interests, shared values, and geographic proximity, divergent national identities have driven... -
Tokyo: A Biography: Disasters, Destruction and Renewal: The Story of an Indomitable City Stephen Mansfield 9780804853040
RRP: £7.99£5.60The history of Tokyo is as eventful as it is long. A concise yet detailed overview of this fascinating, centuries-old city, Tokyo: A Biography is a perfect companion volume for history buffs or Tokyo-bound travelers looking to learn more about their... -
Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace, 500-1300 by Bruce L. Batten 9780824830298
RRP: £26.95£25.95A thousand years ago, most visitors to Japan would have arrived by ship at Hakata Bay, the one and only authorized gateway to Japan. Over the ages, Hakata was a staging ground for Japanese troops on their way to Korea and ground zero for foreign... -
The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995 by Kenneth J. Ruoff
RRP: £20.95£16.88Few institutions are as well suited as the monarchy to provide a window on postwar Japan. The monarchy, which is also a family, has been significant both as a political and as a cultural institution.This comprehensive study analyzes numerous issues,... -
The Culture of the Meiji Period by Daikichi Irokawa 9780691000305
RRP: £45.00£35.32The description for this book, The Culture of the Meiji Period, will be forthcoming.Reviews"This book, a translation of Irokawa's 1969 classic Meiji no Bunka, is best described as an analysis of popular political consciousness in the Meiji period and its... -
Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan by Michael Wert 9780674726703
RRP: £33.95£28.41This 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... -
Japan's Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Continuity and Change by Lam Peng Er 9781498587976
RRP: £35.00£30.95This edited collection analyzes the innovative changes in Japan's foreign policy. Pursuing new relationships with South Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe, Japanese initiatives include regional peace-building and human security activities, Asian... -
Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People by Yoshimi Yoshiaki
RRP: £28.00£21.80Grassroots Fascism profiles the Asia Pacific War (1937-1945)-the most important though least understood experience of Japan's modern history-through the lens of ordinary Japanese life. Moving deftly from the struggles of the home front to the occupied... -
A BOOK OF FIVE RINGS by Miyamoto Musashi by T L Carlyle 9781735238982
RRP: £12.00£8.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735238982Author T L CarlyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint AntellusPublisher AntellusWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm -
Empire Ascendant: The British World, Race, and the Rise of Japan, 1894-1914 by Cees Heere 9780198837398
RRP: £85.00£67.74In 1902, the British government concluded a defensive alliance with Japan, a state that had surprised much of the world with its sudden rise to prominence. For the next two decades, the Anglo-Japanese alliance would hold the balance of power in East... -
The Stories Clothes Tell: Voices of Working-Class Japan by Tatsuichi Horikiri 9781442265103
RRP: £35.00£30.95Spanning decades of research, this compelling social history tells the stories of ordinary people in modern Japan. Tatsuichi Horikiri spent a lifetime searching out old items of clothing-ranging from everyday kimono, work clothes, uniforms, and futons to... -
The Remarkable History of the Yagyu Clan by William De Lange 9789492722218
RRP: £34.99£34.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492722218Author William De LangeFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Toyo PressPublisher Toyo PressWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm -
Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan by D. Colin Jaundrill
RRP: £37.00£32.42In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan. In fifty years spanning the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji nation-state, conscripts supplanted warriors as Japan's... -
In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire by Eiichiro Azuma 9780520304383
RRP: £30.00£23.69In Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese America with Japan's colonial empire through the exchange of migrant bodies, expansionist ideas, colonial expertise, and... -
And the River Flowed as a Raft of Corpses: The Poetry of Yamaguchi Tsutomu, Survivor of Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Chad Diehl 9781450712972
RRP: £12.50£8.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450712972Author Chad DiehlFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Excogitating Over Coffee PublishingPublisher Excogitating Over Coffee... -
Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia by Richard J. Samuels 9780801474903
RRP: £24.99£21.67For the past sixty years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan's security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. Korea's nuclear program, China's rise, and the... -
Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R.Taggart Murphy
RRP: £20.99£15.34Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains one of the most remarkable stories in modern world history. Yet it has not been an easy path; military... -
We Live in Japan-Kids Around the World by Alexandre Messager 9780810993440 [USED COPY]
£17.67Children learn about Japan through the eyes of three children living in this fascinating country - Aoki, Hayo and Kenji.Book InformationISBN 9780810993440Author Alexandre MessagerFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Harry N. Abrams, Inc.Publisher... -
Nagasaki: Life After Nucleur War by Susan Southard 9780670025626 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£8.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670025626Author Susan SouthardFormat HardbackPage Count 396Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 623g -
As the Japanese See it: Past and Present by Michiko Y. Aoki 9780824807603
RRP: £23.95£22.77Text adopted at University of Kansas; University of Missouri, Columbia.Book InformationISBN 9780824807603Author Michiko Y. AokiFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i Press -
Kimono in the Boardroom: The Invisible Evolution of Japanese Women Managers by Jean R. Renshaw 9780195117653
£102.88Japanese women, who comprise more than 40% of the workforce, are essential to the Japanese economy but are not typically thought of as managers. Jean Renshaw challenges that perception in this pathbreaking book. Traditional norms of lifetime employment,... -
Historical Dictionary of Tokyo by Roman Adrian Cybriwsky 9780810872387
RRP: £109.00£88.87Tokyo is Japan's largest city and its capital. It is also one of the largest cities in the world and a major center of global economic influence. The origins of human settlement in what is today Tokyo are lost in prehistory. The city started out quite... -
Remembering Aizu: The Testament of Shiba Goro by Ishmitsu Mahita 9780824821302
RRP: £60.00£56.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824821302Author Ishmitsu MahitaFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i PressWeight(grams) 810g