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Gentleman Samurai and Internationalist: The Life and Trials of Ambassador Sato Naotake, 1882-1971 by Greg Gubler
RRP: £38.00£33.91This book examines Sato Naotake's remarkable and long career at the crossroads of Imperial Japan, emphasizing his integrity and realistic approach to diplomacy, which were particularly evident in his role in maintaining the Neutrality Pact with the... -
Japan 1868-1945: From Isolation to Occupation by Takao Matsumura
RRP: £125.00£107.86The history of Imperial Japan, from the Meiji Restoration through to defeat and occupation at the end of the Second World War, is central to any understanding of the way in which modern Japan has developed and will continue to develop in the future... -
Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan's Wartime Era, 1931-1945 by Aaron Stephen Moore
RRP: £23.99£20.84The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern, spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a cut-and-dried picture is not at all reflective of the principles that guided national... -
Gendered Power: Educated Women of the Meiji Empress' Court by Mamiko Suzuki
£79.92Gendered Power sheds light on the sources of power for three prominent women of the Meiji period: Meiji Empress Haruko; public speaker, poet, and diarist Nakajima Shoen; and educator and prolific author Shimoda Utako. By focusing on the role Chinese... -
Japan's Options for the 1980s by Radha Sinha
RRP: £19.99£17.69Japan's economic success since the 1950s created a range of serious domestic and international problems which threaten the stability of the country. Within Japan at the start of the 1980s there was a strong mood on the right for remilitarization to give... -
Modern Japan and its Problems by G. C. Allen
RRP: £43.99£38.44The author, who was for several years a lecturer in a Japanese Government College, has tried to interpret the civilization and national character of Japan in the light of his experience and of his studies in that country. He describes the novel problems... -
Japan's Continental Adventure by Ching-Chun Wang
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book contains eighteen studies on various important phases of Japan's invasion of China. The appendix contains the historical declaration by Chiang-Kai-shek setting forth clearly the reasons why China took up arms against Japanese aggression, and a... -
Excavating the Power of Memory in Japan by Glenn D. Hook
RRP: £43.99£38.44Excavating the power of memory offers a succinct examination of how memory is constructed, embedded and disseminated in contemporary Japanese society. The unique range and perspective of this collection will provide an understanding not found elsewhere... -
Across the Perilous Sea: Japanese Trade with China and Korea from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries by Charlotte Verschuer
RRP: £47.00£40.88Originally published as Le commerce exterieur du Japon des origines au XVIe siecle in 1988, this new edition of the landmark French study chronicles Japan's transformation from an importer of continental luxury items, raw materials, and techniques to an... -
Women and Networks In Nineteenth Century Japan by Bettina Gramlich-Oka
£89.88Although scholars have emphasized the importance of women's networks for civil society in twentieth century Japan, Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan is the first book to tackle the subject for the contentious and consequential nineteenth... -
The End of Pax Americana: The Loss of Empire and Hikikomori Nationalism by Naoki Sakai
RRP: £23.99£20.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478014911Author Naoki SakaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Duke University PressPublisher Duke University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
An Indiscreet Chronicle from the Pacific by Putnam Weale
RRP: £47.99£42.21The Anglo-Japanese Alliance Treaty was first signed in January 1902 and was seen as a major milestone in diplomatic relations as well as seeing an end to Great Britain's 'Splendid Isolation' policy. Originally published in 1922, Weale's study aims to... -
Japan: The Hungry Guest by G. C. Allen
RRP: £43.99£38.44Written after the outbreak of war between Japan and China but putting aside British sentiments of suspicion, dislike and a sense of competition, G C Allen bases his observations of Japanese social, political and economic life on his first-hand experience... -
The Origins of Japanese Credentialism by Ikuo Amano
£84.40In this English translation of a semi-classic study, readers have the opportunity to explore the manner in which both credentialism and the various levels of the modern education system have developed in Japan.Professor Ikuo Amano, the author of... -
Land of Plants in Motion: Japanese Botany and the World by Professor History Thomas R H Havens
£35.05Land of Plants in Motion is the first in any language to examine two companion stories: (1) the rise of an East Asian floristic zone and how the Japanese islands evolved an astonishing wealth of plant species, and (2) the growth of Japanese botanical... -
Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan by Lafcadio Hearn
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book, first published in 1903, is an account of Lafcadio Hearn's insights and experiences of Japan. Hearn, known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo, was an international writer who was best known for his books about Japan and Japanese culture... -
Deconstructing Nationality by Naoki Sakai
RRP: £24.99£21.67How can a post-national Japanese Studies be defined? How might the postwar myth of a monoethnic Japan be historicized? Can new forms of nationalism be effectively criticized by evoking a spirit of nationalist democracy? This book contains a series of... -
Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Nuclear Humanities in the Post-Cold War by N.A.J. Taylor
RRP: £39.99£35.06This edited volume reconsiders the importance of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki from a post-Cold War perspective. It has been argued that during the Cold War era scholarship was limited by the anxiety that authors felt about the possibility of a... -
Japan - A State Strategy for the Twenty-First Century by Yasuhiro Nakasone
RRP: £41.99£36.75In this important, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging study, Yasuhiro Nakasone, one of the most highly regarded former prime ministers of Japan, considers what should be Japan's strategic direction in the twenty-first century. Japan is often accused of... -
Lordship and Inheritance in Early Medieval Japan: A Study of the Kamakura Soryo System by Jeffrey P. Mass
RRP: £70.00£60.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804715409Author Jeffrey P. MassFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press -
Black Star Over Japan: Rising Forces of Militarism by Albert Axelbank
RRP: £47.99£41.81The Japanese are the only people in the world who have experienced the horror of nuclear weapons with their own flesh. Atomic holocaust was followed by American occupation and the American-inspired, postwar Japanese `Peace Constitution' which explicitly... -
An Essay on the Civilisations of India, China and Japan by G. Lowes Dickinson
RRP: £19.99£17.69This volume presents an account of the author's travels during 1912-13 making particular note of the characteristics of Indian, Chinese and Japanese societies and the effect upon them of contact with the West. Although inevitably dated in some of its... -
Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train by Jessamyn Abel
RRP: £99.00£85.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503610385Author Jessamyn AbelFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan by Gary L. Ebersole
RRP: £58.00£45.18This examination of death rituals in early Japan finds in the practice of double burial a key to understanding the Taika Era (645-710 A.D.). Drawing on narratives and poems from the earliest Japanese texts--the Kojiki, the Nihonshoki, and the Man'yoshu,... -
Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan by Maren A. Ehlers
RRP: £41.95£33.60Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, villagers, and people at the margins of society such as outcastes and itinerant entertainers. Most of these... -
A Path Toward Gender Equality: State Feminism in Japan by Yoshie Kobayashi
RRP: £135.00£117.28The first study of state feminism in a non-western nation state, this volume focuses on the activities and roles of the Women's Bureau of the Ministry of Labor in post-World War II Japan. While state feminism theory possesses a strong capability to... -
Japanese Traits and Foreign Influences by Inazo Nitobe
RRP: £43.99£38.44This volume collects together essays and lectures given by the author from 1922-1927 to a variety of international audiences. Together they illuminate essential aspects of the Japanese mentality and way of life, particularly in social, religious and... -
A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: 1945-1980 by Shunsuke Tsurumi
RRP: £49.99£43.50Shunsuke Tsurumi, one of Japan's most distinguished contemporary philosophers, continues his study of the intellectual and social history of modern Japan with this penetrating analysis of popular culture in the post-war years. Japanese manga (comics),... -
Japan's Foreign Aid: Old Continuities and New Directions by David Arase
RRP: £135.00£117.68Filling a gap in the existing literature, this book analyzes the distinctive features of Japan's development aid, especially technical co-operation, in comparison with other donors' aid. Incorporating a wealth of research, it discusses whether Japan is... -
The Japanese and the War: Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory by Michael Lucken
RRP: £62.00£48.22Memories of World War II exert a powerful influence over Japan's culture and society. In The Japanese and the War, Michael Lucken details how World War II manifested in the literature, art, film, funerary practices, and education reform of the time... -
Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost by Satoko Shimazaki
RRP: £55.00£43.31Satoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater, reframing it as a key player in the formation of an early modern urban identity in Edo Japan and exploring the process that resulted in its re-creation in Tokyo as a national theatrical... -
Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan by Miriam L. Kingsberg Kadia
RRP: £27.99£24.14In 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... -
Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives by Chad Diehl
RRP: £37.00£32.42In Resurrecting Nagasaki, Chad R. Diehl explores the genesis of narratives surrounding the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945, by following the individuals and groups who contributed to the shaping of Nagasaki City's postwar identity. Municipal officials,... -
Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City by Barbara E. Thornbury
RRP: £39.00£34.37Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City is a collection of eight essays that explore Tokyo urban space from the perspective of memory in works of the imagination-novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and films. Written by scholars of Japanese studies... -
More Than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan by Dennis J. Frost
RRP: £34.00£29.89How does a small provincial city in southern Japan become the site of a world-famous wheelchair marathon that has been attracting the best international athletes since 1981? In More Than Medals, Dennis J. Frost answers this question and addresses the... -
Minobe Tatsukichi: Interpreter of Constitutionalism in Japan by Frank O. Miller
RRP: £42.00£33.04This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan by Jakobina K. Arch
RRP: £23.99£20.84Japan today 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,... -
Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age by Elizabeth Oyler
RRP: £44.00£38.34Cultural Imprints draws on literary works, artifacts, performing arts, and documents that were created by or about the samurai to examine individual "imprints," traces holding specifically grounded historical meanings that persist through time. The... -
Tsumi - Offence and Retribution in Early Japan by Yoko Williams
RRP: £47.99£41.81Covering the period from before the emergence of the first political units through to the formation of the Japanese ritsuryo state in the 8th century, this book offers a ground-breaking scholarly diachronic analysis of tsumi (offence and retribution)... -
The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the 'Opening' of Japan by Ann Bowman Jannetta
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Japan, as late as the mid-nineteenth century, smallpox claimed the lives of an estimated twenty percent of all children born-most of them before the age of five. When the apathetic Tokugawa shogunate failed to respond, Japanese physicians, learned in...