Japan

A broad, intelligent overview of the Japanese political economy, The Postwar Japanese System is one of the best books available to tell us what we can learn from Japan, and what price the Japanese are paying for their success. While other countries are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994537850Author Masao SugiuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Interventions IncPublisher Interventions IncWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780834802278Author Paul WaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Weatherhill IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979039744Author Les PatersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Jetlag PressPublisher Jetlag PressWeight(grams) 222g

This book analyses two international incidents in the 1920s shocked Japan and changed the way in which the country looked at the West. In the Paris Peace Conference, Japanese proposed Racial Equality Bill was defeated. In 1924, the US passed the...

How did the inhabitants of several small islands in the Pacific become the world's first non-Western industrialised nation? The answer is found in the fascinating story of Japan's political and social history. This narrative chronicles Japanese history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860549772Author Yuriko FukasawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983330004Author Atsuhiro OzakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Wessex, IncorporatedPublisher Wessex, Incorporated

This absorbing book, written by a former diplomat and ambassador to Japan, provides a fresh perspective on Japan's history, politics, and culture over the past hundred years. Sydney Giffard traces Japan's phenomenal development into one of the world's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857068903Author Nakaba YamadaFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 358g

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In 1643, ten crew members of the Dutch yacht ""Breskens"" were lured ashore at Nambu in northern Japan. Once out of view of their ship, the men were bound and taken to the shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, in Edo, where they remained...

This is the first systematic, historical inquiry into the emergence of ""victim consciousness"" (higaisha ishiki) as an essential component of Japanese pacifist national identity after World War II. In his meticulously crafted narrative and analysis, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857068910Author Nakaba YamadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965856416Author Joshua SafierFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Dissertation.comPublisher Dissertation.comWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674184756Author Professor Marius B JansenFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 399g

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This book researches banking structure in developing Japan and gives insight into how Japan's banks have become embroiled in recent financial crisis. It re-evaluates the role and function of Japan's commercial banks among its corporate groupings and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876095935Author Sheila a SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Council on Foreign Relations PressPublisher Council on Foreign Relations...

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The political influence of temples in premodern 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...

The Meiji Restoration of 1868 is most often seen as a glorious event marking the overthrow of Tokugawa feudalism and the beginning of Japan's modern transformation. Yet it had its dark side. The Aizu domain in northeastern Japan had staunchly supported...

Japan at Nature's Edge is a timely collection of essays that explores the relationship between Japan's history, culture, and physical environment. It greatly expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by examining Japan's role in global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674437012Author D Eleanor WestneyFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 549g

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The third-century Chinese chronicle ""Wei zhi"" (Record of Wei) is responsible for Japan's most enduring ancient mystery. This early history tells of a group of islands off the China coast that were dominated by a female shaman named...

The Japanese have long sought inspiration and legitimacy from the written record of their ancient past. The shaping of bygone eras to contemporary agendas began at least by the early eighth century, when the first court histories, namely the Kojiki and...

Tanohata in the 1950s was an isolated fishing village in the Tohoku region of Japan. Life there was so miserable that those who could leave did, and those who could not stayed on in a state of demoralization. By the 1980s, however, Tanohata had not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806159416Author James M McCaffreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802842053Author Hiroshi MiuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Louis G. Perez revisits Japan's turbulent past and recent events in the past decade and 21st Century in this revised and fully expanded second edition of The History of Japan, a must-have for all high school and public libraries. This essential resource...

The changing global geopolitical balance in the 1990s has prompted Japan to reassess its international role and to question the bases upon which its foreign economic policies have rested for the past half century. Similarly, the internal developments of...

In Search of the Way is a history of intellectual and religious developments in Japan during the Tokugawa period, covering the years 1582-1860. It begins with an explanation of the fate of Christianity, and proceeds to cover the changing nature of the...

Here 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...

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In The Ashio Riot of 1907, Nimura Kazuo explains why the workers at the Ashio copper mine-Japan's largest mining concern and one of the largest such operations in the world-joined together for three days of rioting against the Furukawa Company in...

Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the "stuff" of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of...

A collective biography of the Japanese Imperial family, covering five generations from the Meiji Restoration of the nineteenth century. Reveals the true nature of the dynasty that has been shrouded in myth and legend. Includes details of the imperial...

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