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Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan's Colonial Peoples by Kirsten L. Ziomek 9780674237278
RRP: £58.95£47.15A 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... -
The Money Doctors from Japan: Finance, Imperialism, and the Building of the Yen Bloc, 1895-1937 by Michael Schiltz 9780674062498
RRP: £33.95£27.41Money and finance have been among the most potent tools of colonial power. This study investigates the Japanese experiment with financial imperialism-or "yen diplomacy"-at several key moments between the acquisition of Taiwan in 1895 and the outbreak of... -
The Age of Visions and Arguments: Parliamentarianism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan by Kyu Hyun Kim 9780674017764
RRP: £41.95£34.00The Meiji Restoration of 1868 inaugurated a period of great change in Japan, it is seldom associated, however, with advances in civil and political rights. By studying parliamentarianism - the theories, arguments, and polemics marshaled in support of a... -
Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The Oyama Cult and Regional Religion in Early Modern Japan by Barbara Ambros 9780674027756
RRP: £33.95£27.81Towering over the Kanto Plain, the sacred mountain oyama (literally, "Big Mountain") has loomed large over the religious landscape of early modern Japan.By the Edo period (1600-1868), the revered peak had undergone a transformation from... -
Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890 by Brian Platt 9780674013964
RRP: £37.95£30.91Soon after overthrowing the Tokugawa government in 1868, the new Meiji leaders devised ambitious plans to build a modern nation-state. Among the earliest and most radical of the Meiji reforms was a plan for a centralised, compulsory educational system... -
The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan by Marcia Yonemoto 9780520292000
RRP: £59.00£45.94Early modern Japan was a military-bureaucratic state governed by patriarchal and patrilineal principles and laws. During this time, however, women had considerable power to directly affect social structure, political practice, and economic production... -
Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan by Jakobina K. Arch 9780295743295
RRP: £39.00£34.12Today, Japan defends its controversial whaling expeditions by invoking tradition-but what was the historical reality? In examining the techniques and impacts of whaling during the Tokugawa period (1603-1868), Jakobina Arch shows that the organized,... -
Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War by Noriko Kawamura 9780295995175
RRP: £87.00£78.92This 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... -
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan by Donald Keene 9780231130561
RRP: £88.00£68.75Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. He was a failure as a soldier, incompetent at dealing with state business, and dominated by his wife. But his influence on the cultural life of Japan was unparalleled. According to Donald... -
The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan by Simon Partner 9780231182928
RRP: £55.00£42.91In 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... -
A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597-1600: The Writings of Kang Hang by JaHyun Kim Haboush 9780231163705
RRP: £88.00£68.75Kang Hang was a Korean scholar-official taken prisoner in 1597 by an invading Japanese army during the Imjin War of 1592-1598. While in captivity in Japan, Kang recorded his thoughts on human civilization, war, and the enemy's culture and society, acting... -
The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity by Royall Tyler 9780231069595
RRP: £28.00£21.80In this annotated translation and study of an early fourteenth-century Japanese devotional picture scroll set, Royall Tyler illuminates the complex relationships between medieval Japanese religion and politics, text, and art. The Kasuga Gongen genki... -
Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States by Alexis Dudden 9780231141765
RRP: £88.00£68.75Whether it's the Vatican addressing its role in the Second World War or the United States atoning for its treatment of native Hawai'ian islanders, apologizing for history has become a standard feature of the international political scene. As Alexis... -
Unneglected Histories Behind the Australia-Japan Relationshipexpected Encounters: Neglected Histories Behind the Australia-Japan Relationship by Michael Ackland 9781876924508
RRP: £23.99£19.52In telling the personal stories of Australians in Japan and Japanese in Australia, this book explores issues of race, identity, and ambition in times of war and peace. The essays collected here illuminate a variety of fascinating lives and individual... -
Japan's Engineering Ethics and Western Culture: Social Status, Democracy, and Economic Globalization by Kenichi Natsume 9781793612892
RRP: £94.00£82.26Given that engineering significantly affects modern society, ensuring its reliability is essential. How then should society implement engineering ethics to ensure its reliability? Can we expect engineering ethics to be nurtured naturally in the practice... -
21st Century Japan by Trevor Harrison 9781551643069
RRP: £15.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551643069Author Trevor HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose BooksWeight(grams) 327g -
Japanese Civilization in the 21st Century by Andrew Targowski 9781536128871
RRP: £101.99£82.41This book is a comprehensive synthesis of Japanese civilization in the 21st century. It covers all major elements of this civilization with a strong emphasis on how it can develop further in the future. All nations strive for prominence, but few reach it... -
Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan by Miriam L. Kingsberg Kadia 9781503609082
RRP: £116.00£100.22In the 1930s, a cohort of professional human scientists coalesced around a common and particular understanding of objectivity as the foundation of legitimate knowledge, and of fieldwork as the pathway to objectivity. Into the Field is the first... -
A Transnational Critique of Japaneseness: Cultural Nationalism, Racism, and Multiculturalism in Japan by Yuko Kawai 9781498599009
RRP: £85.00£74.51In this book, Yuko Kawai departs from the common conception of Japan as an ethnically homogenous nation. A Transnational Critique of Japaneseness: Cultural Nationalism, Racism, and Multiculturalism in Japan investigates the construction of Japaneseness... -
Living Transnationally between Japan and Brazil: Routes beyond Roots by Sarah A. LeBaron von Baeyer 9781498580366
RRP: £90.00£78.81Based on over two years of participant-observation in labor brokerage firms, factories, schools, churches, and people's homes in Japan and Brazil, Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer presents an ethnographic portrait of what it means in practice to "live... -
Changing Security Policies in Postwar Japan: The Political Biography of Japanese Defense Minister Sakata Michita by Sase Masamori 9781498552608
RRP: £85.00£74.51This book is the English translation of a recent biography of Sakata Michita, one of Japan's leading, yet unassuming, politicians in the postwar era, who was even considered a serious contender for the premiership. While he did not become prime minister... -
Music and Words: Producing Popular Songs in Modern Japan, 1887-1952 by Patrick M. Patterson 9781498550352
RRP: £90.00£78.81Composer Nakayama Shimpei (1887-1952) wrote more than 300 popular songs in his lifetime. Most are still well known and recorded regularly. An entrepreneur, he found ways to create popular songs that powered Japan's nascent recording industry in the 1920s... -
The Aftermath of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: Living among the Rubble by Shoichiro Takezawa 9781498542531
RRP: £43.00£37.78An insightful study in disaster anthropology, this book takes as its focus the fishing town of Otsuchi in Japan's Iwate Prefecture, one of the worst damaged areas in the mammoth 2011 tsunami. Here, 1281 of the pre-tsunami population of 15000 were killed... -
Creating Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, 1945-2015: A Sword Well Made by David Hunter-Chester 9781498537896
RRP: £105.00£92.13Creating Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, 1945-2015 is a timely contribution to postwar Japan security studies. It is the first comprehensive account of Japan's post-1945 army, including a comprehensive institutional history, together with the... -
The JET Program and the US-Japan Relationship: Goodwill Goldmine by Emily T. Metzgar 9781498526050
RRP: £39.00£34.37Since 1987, the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program has recruited thousands of young college graduates from more than sixty countries, including the United States, to work in Japan for up to five years. Now, thirty years after the program's... -
The JET Program and the US-Japan Relationship: Goodwill Goldmine by Emily T. Metzgar 9781498526036
RRP: £85.00£74.51Since 1987, the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program has recruited thousands of young college graduates from more than sixty countries, including the United States, to work in Japan for up to five years. Now, thirty years after the program's... -
The Norwegian-American Lutheran Experience in 1950s Japan: Stepping up to the Cold War Challenge by Kate Allen 9781498524803
RRP: £109.00£95.57Stepping Up to the Cold War Challenge: The Norwegian-American Lutheran Experience in 1950s Japan describes the events that led to the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC), an American Christian denomination, to respond to General MacArthur's call for... -
The Abe Restoration: Contemporary Japanese Politics and Reformation by Craig Mark 9781498516785
RRP: £42.00£36.93Shinzo Abe returned to office as Prime Minister of Japan 2012, leading the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for a second time. This book examines how Abe has sought a restoration of Japanese primacy at three levels: political, through the restoration of... -
The Abe Restoration: Contemporary Japanese Politics and Reformation by Craig Mark 9781498516761
RRP: £88.00£80.82Shinzo Abe returned to office as Prime Minister of Japan 2012, leading the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for a second time. This book examines how Abe has sought a restoration of Japanese primacy at three levels: political, through the restoration of... -
The Bonin Islanders, 1830 to the Present: Narrating Japanese Nationality by David Chapman 9781498516631
RRP: £95.00£83.52This book is a collection of interwoven historical narratives that present an intriguing and little known account of the Ogasawara (Bonin) archipelago and its inhabitants. The narratives begin in the seventeenth century and weave their way through... -
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer by Tom Gill 9781498511988
RRP: £82.00£71.92Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer is a one-man ethnography, tracing the career of a single Japanese day laborer called Kimitsu, from his wartime childhood in the southern island of Kyushu through a brief military... -
Beachheads: War, Peace, and Tourism in Postwar Okinawa by Gerald Figal 9781442215818
£117.28This original and fresh book explores Okinawa's makeover as a tourist mecca in the long historical shadow and among the physical ruins of the Pacific War's most devastating land battle. Gerald Figal considers how a place burdened by a history of... -
Russian Studies of Japan: An Exploratory Survey by E.Stuart Kirby 9781349165391
RRP: £30.00£26.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349165391Author E.Stuart KirbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 316g -
Wombs of Empire: Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan by Sujin Lee 9781503637009
RRP: £21.99£19.19Japan's contemporary struggle with low fertility rates is a well-known issue, as are the country's efforts to bolster their population in order to address attendant socioeconomic challenges. However, though this anxiety about and discourse around... -
Wombs of Empire: Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan by Sujin Lee 9781503636392
RRP: £91.00£78.92Japan's contemporary struggle with low fertility rates is a well-known issue, as are the country's efforts to bolster their population in order to address attendant socioeconomic challenges. However, though this anxiety about and discourse around... -
Japan: Background, Issues & Developments by Angela C. Taylor 9781606929155
RRP: £172.99£114.20The post-World War II U.S.-Japan alliance has long been an anchor of the U.S. security role in East Asia. The alliance facilitates the forward deployment of about 53,000 U.S. troops and other U.S. military assets in the Asian-Pacific, thereby... -
Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left by Chelsea Szendi Schieder 9781478010425
RRP: £85.00£73.81In the 1960s, a new generation of university-educated youth in Japan challenged forms of capitalism and the state. In Coed Revolution Chelsea Szendi Schieder recounts the crucial stories of Japanese women's participation in these protest movements led by... -
The Dog Shogun: The Personality and Policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi by Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey 9780824829780
RRP: £75.00£71.09Tsunayoshi (1646–1709), the fifth Tokugawa shogun, is one of the most notorious figures in Japanese history. Viewed by many as a tyrant, his policies were deemed eccentric, extreme, and unorthodox. His Laws of Compassion, which made the maltreatment of... -
In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End by Norma Field 9780679741893
RRP: £16.95£9.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679741893Author Norma FieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Escape from Work: Freelancing Youth and the Challenge to Corporate Japan by Reiko Kosugi 9781876843441
£75.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781876843441Author Reiko KosugiFormat HardbackPage Count 267Imprint Trans Pacific PressPublisher Trans Pacific Press