Japan

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241098001Author William Elliot GriffisFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Primary Sources, Historical CollectionsPublisher Primary Sources, Historical...

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The Japanese first encountered Western scientific technology around 1543, when the Portuguese drifted ashore and left them firearms. For the next few centuries Japan's policy of national isolation severely limited contact with the West. In the middle of...

Two late-developing nations, Japan and Italy, similarly obsessed with achieving modernity and with joining the ranks of the great powers, have traveled parallel courses with very different national identities. In this audacious book about leadership and...

Chronicles the Japanese military's transformation from honorable soldiers known for their chivalry and kindness towards their wounded and imprisoned enemies into men who massacred hundreds of thousands in the Pacific theater during World War II.Book...

This "stimulating and comprehensive" (Kirkus Reviews) collection of original essays on twentieth-century Japan's history and culture provides a unique mix of American and Japanese perspectives on Showa. With an important, substantial Introduction by...

This volume offers the first in-depth analysis in English of an understudied phenomenon in medieval Japanese history: the so-called akuto (literally, "evil bands"). Employing chronicles, laws, and legal documents from the thirteenth and fourteenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626176843Author Marty GitlinFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Bellwether MediaPublisher Bellwether Media

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Explore Tokyo's incredible journey from a feudal past to a global metropolis in Edward Seidensticker's captivating narrative, a must-read for history enthusiasts and curious travelers eager to delve into the city's remarkable evolution.Edward...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853458586Author Honda KatsuichiFormat HardbackPage Count 221Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 386g

On publication in France, Bouissou's depiction of modern Japan was acclaimed as `the best of its kind', and this translation has been updated to cover events up till 1999, and augmented by an overview of the Japanese historical legacy before 1945. In the...

Multiethnic Japan challenges the received view of Japanese society as ethnically homogeneous. Employing a wide array of arguments and evidence--historical and comparative, interviews and observations, high literature and popular culture--John Lie recasts...

What ties bound region to centre in the making of the modern Japanese state? What forces shaped these bonds? How did the local-centre relationship change over time? What is its current legacy? Focusing on the marginal region of Toyama, on the Sea of...

Two late-developing nations, Japan and Italy, similarly obsessed with achieving modernity and with joining the ranks of the great powers, have traveled parallel courses with very different national identities. In this audacious book about leadership and...

Japan has emerged as a major world player following its defeat in World War II. After recovering from the war, lifting itself onto the stage of the late 20th century world, and jettisoning its cheap, bizarre goods, Japan began to extend its influence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853458593Author Honda KatsuichiFormat PaperbackPage Count 221Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

Japanese local history is used as an ingredient in historiographical theories designed to prove that the rapid pace of change in Japan led either to phenomenal success or to dismal failure. Against the backdrop of a comprehensive overview of Japanese...

Examines Japan’s war generation—Japanese men and women who survived World War Two and rebuilt their lives, into the 21st century, from memories of that conflict Since John Hersey’s Hiroshima—the classic account, published in 1946, of the aftermath of the...

The godfather of Japanese revisionism, author of MITI and the Japanese Miracle and president of the Japan Policy Research Institute explains how-and why-Japan has become a world power in the past 25 years. Johnson lucidly explains here how the Japanese...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578769356Author Donna RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Donna RobinsonPublisher Donna RobinsonWeight(grams) 152g

Miles Fletcher examines the role of the Japanese business community in helping the nation solve an unprecedented combination of economic challenges in the 1920s and 1930s: chronic trade deficits, world depression, rampant protectionism, and mobilization...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984377947Author Thomas L BuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Lloyd & Tutle Publishing, LimitedPublisher Lloyd & Tutle Publishing,...

In this detailed analysis of the life and teachings of Deguchi Nao (1837-1918) and the religion she founded, Omotokyo, Emily Ooms expands and refines our understanding of women's roles in the creation of new modes of religious thought and action in Japan...

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A landmark book presenting the early "deluxe" versions of Hiroshige's Edo prints for the first time!Utagawa Hiroshige's unique landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), first published in the 1850s, is among the best-known...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087284503Author Michal PiegzikFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

In The Geography of Injustice, Barak Kushner argues that the war crimes tribunals in East Asia formed and cemented national divides that persist into the present day. In 1946 the Allies convened the Tokyo Trial to prosecute Japanese wartime atrocities...

For decades, US military operations have been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances, including plutonium, dioxin, and VX nerve agent. Hundreds of thousands of service members, their families, and residents have been exposed—but the...

Reviews of the first edition- "Allinson promises a comprehensive synthesis... that integrates analysis of political, economic and social topics.... This book deserves a prominent place on any reading list in modern Japanese studies... and could...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848743254Author Vitali HeidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 2096g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848724994Author Kuniyuki TeradaFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700174004Author Professor of Japanese History Kate Wildman NakaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher...