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*Winner of The North American Travel Journalists Association's Excellence in Travel Journalism Award*Japan mesmerizes and bewilders the visitor in equal measure, making a top-notch travel guide essential for anyone planning a trip to the land of the...

Possibly the most famous fighting formations of the Burma campaign during the Second World War were the Long Range Penetration Groups, more commonly known as the Chindits. Colonel Orde Wingate was given permission to attempt long-range operations deep...

The Imperial Japanese Navy was a pioneer in naval aviation, having commissioned the world's first built-from-the-keel-up carrier, the 'Hosho'. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, it experimented with its carriers, perfecting their design and construction. As...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891640711Author Nobuko HiroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Floating World EditionsPublisher Floating World EditionsWeight(grams)...

The Evacuation of Singapore to the Prison Camps of Sumatra aims to describe the events prior to, during and after the Fall of Singapore and the ways in which former prisoners are remembered on Bangka Island today. It is the product of many years of...

Japanese mythology is filled with stories of larger-than-life characters that shaped the landscape of Japan. They are the folk heroes who slayed monsters, fought in epic battles and reflected the most complicated emotions of the people who created them...

The final months of Allied naval bombardments on the Home Islands during World War II have, for whatever reason, frequently been overlooked by historians. Yet the Allies' final naval campaign against Japan involved the largest and arguably most...

An illustrated exploration of the dramatic aerial combats between the US Navy's long-range bomber and Japanese flying boats in the Pacific War. Edward Young explores these rarely written about combats, examining the aggressive and strategic tactics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990421443Author H E DaveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Michi PublishingPublisher Michi PublishingWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

**Winner Gourmand World Cookbook Award 2019**"In his new book, journalist Brian Ashcraft digs into the short but colorful history of the Japanese liquor and the process that differentiates Japan's labels from their Western cousins. Plus, whisky authority...

The sect was said to harbour dark designs to overthrow the government. Its teachers used a dead language that was impenetrable to all but the innermost circle of believers. Its priests preached love and kindness, but helped local warlords acquire ...

'A retainer of our domain, Renpeido Chikamatsu Hikonoshin Shigenori, each morning washed his face and hands, dressed himself in Hakama and prayed in front of the kamidana alter ... His prayer was thus: "Please afford me success in war." He kept to this...

Designed with little more than a passing nod to the international naval treaties of the inter-war period, the Imperial Japanese Navy's heavy cruisers were fast and heavily armed. Like the other vessels of the Japanese Navy, the heavy cruisers were...

Internationally renowned samurai expert Dr Stephen Turnbull delves into a pivotal era of Japanese history in this highly illustrated account of The Gempei War a conflict that defined the age and the ethos of the samurai. Never before had there been a...

Featuring evocative artwork plates and carefully selected photographs, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops who contested the islands of Tarawa, Roi-Namur, and Eniwetok during 1943-44. On November 20, 1943, amphibious vehicles...

We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our death, every sound of the clock shortening our lives."...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891011665Author Lesley DownerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Experiment, LLCPublisher Experiment, LLC

"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...

Japanese woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e, are the most recognizable Japanese art form. Their massive popularity has spread from Japan to be embraced by a worldwide audience. Covering the period from the beginning of the Japanese woodblock print in the 1680s...

Almost a millennium before the perfection of chado (the Way of Tea) by Sen Rikyu (1522-1591), the Chinese scholar-official Lu Yu (d. 785) wrote exhaustively about tea and its virtues. Grand Tea Master Sen Soshitsu begins his examination of tea's origins...

Apologies 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

This Volume Three of Pacific Adversaries conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the South Pacific, chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate accounting. Often the actual outcomes are very different to the...

In this scintillating book, Ian Buruma peels away the myths that surround Japanese culture. With piercing analysis of cinema, theatre, television, art and legend, he shows the Japanese both 'as they imagine themselves to be, and as they would like...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647480875Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950959006Author Eric ShahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Eric Michael ShahanPublisher Eric Michael ShahanWeight(grams) 152g

Set in an age of feuding samurai, wandering swordsmen and fearless warrior monks, Ronin is a skirmish wargame that captures the flavour and excitement of such Akira Kurosawa films as Seven Samurai and Yojimbo. Whether they prefer the loyal samurai...

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Apologies 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

Factories of Death details the activities of the Japanese army scientists that conducted numerous horrifying experiments upon live human beings. It investigates who from the upper echelons of the Japanese military and political establishments knew of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992078621Author Samuel HawleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 684Imprint Conquistador PressPublisher Conquistador PressWeight(grams) 989g

This Volume Two of Pacific Adversaries conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the South Pacific, chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate accounting. Often the actual outcomes are very different to the...

This Volume Four of Pacific Adversaries conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the Solomons theatre, chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate accounting. Often the actual outcomes are very different to the...

In this highly original and now classic text, Ian Buruma explores and compares how Germany and Japan have attempted to come to terms with their violent pasts, and investigates the painful realities of living with guilt, and with its denial.As Buruma...

The destroyers of the Akizuki "Autumn Moon" class were very different from the standard fleet type of Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers inaugurated with the Fubuki class. They were designed for the protection of the Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier task...

In Scripted Affects, Branded Selves, Gabriella Lukacs analyzes the development of a new primetime serial called "trendy drama" as the Japanese television industry's ingenious response to market fragmentation. Much like the HBO hit Sex and the City,...

Describes how newly modernized Japan waged war against China in its first overseas campaign, marking its rapid transition into Asia's leading military power only 30 years after emerging from centuries of feudalism. After the Meiji restoration of the...

This is a straightforward narrative of the development of Japanese civilization to 1334 by the author of Japan: A Short Cultural History. While complete in itself, it is also the first volume of a three-volume work which will be the first large-scale,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513538Author Stephen TurnbullFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Meticulous detail and insightful analysis combine with a gripping chronological narrative to provide the essential guide to the Pacific Theater of World War II. On December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes appeared from the clouds above Pearl Harbor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635610741Author Stephen AddissFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...