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Nakajima Ki-49 ‘Helen’ Units by George Eleftheriou
RRP: £16.99£12.28A fully illustrated study of the Nakajima Ki49 'Helen', the twin-engined bomber of the Pacific War, from Japanese aviation expert George Eleftheriou. The Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu ('Dragon Eater'), codenamed 'Helen' by the Allies, was a twin-engined... -
Zen at War by Brian Daizen Victoria 9780742539266
RRP: £40.00£35.22A compelling history of the contradictory, often militaristic, role of Zen Buddhism, this book meticulously documents the close and previously unknown support of a supposedly peaceful religion for Japanese militarism throughout World War II. Drawing on... -
A Brief History of the Martial Arts: East Asian Fighting Styles, from Kung Fu to Ninjutsu Jonathan Clements 9781472136466
RRP: £14.99£9.80'If I had to pick a single general martial arts history book in English, I would recommend A Brief History of the Martial Arts by Dr Jonathan Clements' RICHARD BEITLICH, Martial History Team blogFrom Shaolin warrior monks to the movies of Bruce Lee, a... -
Dialectics without Synthesis: Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame by Naoki Yamamoto
RRP: £30.00£23.29Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan's active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of... -
Armies of the Russo-Japanese War 1904-05 by Philip S. Jowett
RRP: £12.99£11.01The Russo-Japanese War was the first major conflict of the 20th century, as vast armies clashed in Manchuria incurring enormous casualties. Its global significance was immense, as the tactics deployed during this war anticipated the trench warfare of... -
Journey To The Heart Of Aikido by Linda Holiday
RRP: £19.99£14.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583946596Author Linda HolidayFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Blue Snake BooksPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm)... -
Medical Officers on the Infamous Burma Railway: Accounts of Life, Death and War Crimes by Those Who Were There With F-Force by Grehan, John 9781399095624
RRP: £20.00£14.29In 1944, a compilation of medical reports from the main prisoner of war work camps along the infamous Thailand-Burma railway was submitted to General Arimura Tsunemichi, commander of the Japanese Prisoner of War Administration. The authors stated that... -
Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Restoration, 1868-2000 by R. Sims 9780312239152
RRP: £49.99£33.99Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Restoration, 1868-2000 explores, through a combination of narrative and analysis, the changes in the political process which lay behind Japan's transformation into a modern nation state; its successive turn... -
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi 9781398808744
RRP: £12.99£8.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398808744Author Miyamoto MusashiFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius EntertainmentWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)... -
To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino 9781538121788
RRP: £17.99£14.04Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever. To... -
The Lost Samurai School by Antony Cummins
RRP: £23.00£16.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623170875Author Antony CumminsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Blue Snake BooksPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm)... -
Empire Signs by Roland Barthes
£10.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374522070Author Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc -
Flashing Steel, 25th Anniversary Memorial Edition: Mastering Eishin-Ryu Swordsmanship Masayuki Shimabukuro 9781623175030
RRP: £32.00£21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623175030Author Masayuki ShimabukuroFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Samurai! by Saburo Sakai
RRP: £18.95£16.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743412834Author Saburo SakaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint ibooks IncPublisher ibooks IncWeight(grams) 564g -
The Complete Ninja: The Secret World Revealed by Masaaki Hatsumi
RRP: £35.00£23.43In The Complete Ninja, Masaaki Hatsumi, the world's most renowned ninja grandmaster and top budo master, creates a companion volume to his bestselling The Way of the Ninja. Like the earlier work, it features hundreds of historical illustrations,... -
Ninja: Unmasking the Myth by Stephen Turnbull 9781473850422
RRP: £25.00£21.21The ninja is a well-known phenomenon in Japanese military culture, a fighter who is widely regarded as the world s greatest exponent of secret warfare. He infiltrates castles, gathers vital intelligence and wields a deadly knife in the dark. His easily... -
Looking For The Lost: Journeys Through A Vanishing Japan Alan Booth 9781568361482
RRP: £15.99£14.28From the author of The Roads to Sata', this book tells the story of an odyssey to the vanishing heart of Japan. A VIBRANT, MEDITATIVE WALK IN SEARCH OF THE SOUL OF JAPAN Traveling by foot through mountains and villages, Alan Booth found a Japan far... -
The Colonel of Tamarkan: Philip Toosey and the Bridge on the River Kwai by Julie Summers 9780743495738
RRP: £9.99£7.11Written by Toosey's granddaughter, this remarkable portrait of a forgotten British hero and leader is essential reading for anyone interested in the Second World War. 'Truly uplifting ... It makes you proud to be British.' The Guardian Alec Guinness won... -
One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa by John Wukovits 9780451221384
RRP: £24.00£16.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451221384Author John WukovitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)... -
Okinawa: The History of an Island People George Kerr 9784805314791
RRP: £19.99£13.35"The first full-length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western language...a standard work."-Pacific AffairsOkinawa: The History of an Island People is the definitive book available in English on the history of Okinawa and the Ryukyu... -
Pacific Profiles Volume Eight: IJN Floatplanes in the South Pacific 1942-1944 by Michael Claringbould 9780645246940
RRP: £24.95£22.92Volume Eight of the Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate profiles and histories to date of Imperial Japanese Navy floatplanes which served in the South Pacific theatre, throughout New Guinea and the Solomons. The markings of the six... -
Rising Sun by John Toland 9781848845251
RRP: £19.99£14.68This magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning history, told primarily from the Japanese viewpoint, traces the dramatic fortunes of the Empire of the Sun from the invasion of Manchuria to the dropping of the atomic bombs, demolishing many myths surrounding this... -
Stalin's War on Japan: The Red Army's 'Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation', 1945 by Charles Stephenson
RRP: £25.00£17.62Did Japan surrender in 1945 because of the death and devastation caused by the atomic bombs dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima and Nagasaki or because of the crushing defeat inflicted on their armies by the Soviet Union in Manchukuo, the puppet state... -
A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer by Oyama Shiro 9780801443756
RRP: £19.99£16.00San'ya, Tokyo's largest day-laborer quarter and the only one with lodgings, had been Oyama Shiro's home for twelve years when he took up his pen and began writing about his life as a resident of Tokyo's most notorious neighborhood. After completing a... -
Shinto: A History by Helen Hardacre
RRP: £39.99£37.43From time immemorial, the Japanese people have worshipped Kami--spirits that inhabit or represent a particular place, or embody natural forces like the wind, rivers, and mountains. Whenever a new settlement was founded a shrine would be erected for the... -
Modern Ninja Warfare: Ninja Tactics and Methods for the Modern Warrior by Antony Cummins
RRP: £12.99£8.60Modern Ninja Warfare takes a contemporary look at the stealthy methods of the Ninja (Shinobi).Ninja historian Antony Cummins, himself a skilled martial artist, takes a detailed and realistic look at the Ninja, their methods and their role in the medieval... -
A History of Japan in Manga: Samurai, Shoguns and World War II by Kanaya Shunichiro
RRP: £15.99£10.25The entire fascinating story of Japan told in one exciting manga-style volume!A History of Japan in Manga tells the action-packed saga of Japan from its misty origins up to the present day. Epic battles, noble Samurai and duplicitous leaders are all... -
Kings in All but Name: The Lost History of Ouchi Rule in Japan, 1350-1569 by Thomas D. Conlan 9780197677339
RRP: £78.00£71.28In the sixteenth century, members of the Ouchi family were kings in all but name in much of Japan. Immensely wealthy, they controlled sea lanes stretching to Korea and China, as well as the Japanese city of Yamaguchi, which functioned as an important... -
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter
RRP: £17.99£14.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544334502Author Rana MitterFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 133mm * 31mm -
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945 by Mark Driscoll
RRP: £23.99£20.84In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical attention to the peripheries, where figures including... -
Japan: Courts and Culture Rachel Peat 9781909741683
RRP: £49.95£33.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909741683Author Rachel PeatFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Royal Collection TrustPublisher Royal Collection TrustWeight(grams) 1880g -
B-25 Mitchell vs Japanese Destroyer Mark Lardas 9781472845177
RRP: £13.99£9.75Throughout the first year of the war in the Pacific during World War II the USAAF was relatively ineffective against ships. Indeed, warships in particular proved to be too elusive for conventional medium-level bombing. High-level attacks wasted bombs,... -
Japan - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture Paul Norbury 9781857338607
RRP: £7.99£7.11Culture Smart! Japan will guide you through modern Japan's shifting social and cultural maze. It provides invaluable insights into people's attitudes and behavior, and practical tips to help make your visit to this complex, rich, and dynamic society a... -
Strategy and the Second World War: How the War was Won, and Lost Jeremy Black 9781472145109
RRP: £14.99£9.80A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor; and... -
A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness by NHK TV
RRP: £12.99£7.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942993544Author NHK TV CrewFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vertical, Inc.Publisher Vertical, Inc.Weight(grams) 203g -
The Way of the Samurai by Inazo Nitobe
RRP: £12.99£7.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398808751Author Inazo NitobeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Yokosuka D4Y 'Judy' Units by Mark Chambers
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1938, the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal, acting under the requirements issued by the Kaigun Koku Hombu for a Navy Experimental 13-Shi Carrier Borne specification for a dive-bomber to replace the venerable 'Val' aboard carriers. The resulting... -
Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back by Janice P. Nimura
RRP: £12.99£11.86In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the... -
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll
RRP: £19.99£17.58In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Islands and the accompanying ruin of Japanese carrier airpower marked a pivotal moment in the Pacific War. No... -
The Dauntless in Battle by Peter C. Smith 9781526704603
RRP: £19.99£14.28The Douglas Dauntless was a Second World War American naval scout plane and dive bomber that saw active service during the course of this conflict and beyond, before being retired in 1959. US Navy and Marine Corps SBD's (Small But Deadly) saw their...