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Pearl: December 7, 1941 by Daniel Allen Butler
RRP: £25.00£17.62What happened at Pearl Harbor?What really happened?The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is one of those rare moments where, in the space of a few hours, the "hinge of Fate" turned and the course of history was utterly changed. Nearly eight decades later,... -
History of Japan: A Captivating Guide to Japanese History, Including Events Such as the Genpei War, Mongol Invasions, Battle of Tsushima, and Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Captivating History 9781647480714
RRP: £19.99£12.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647480714Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm)... -
The Fall of Language in the Age of English by Minae Mizumura 9780231163026
RRP: £22.00£17.36Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United... -
Japanese Tanks 1939-45 by Steven Zaloga 9781846030918
RRP: £20.00£11.66Contrary to popular belief, the Japanese Army widely employed tanks within the Pacific theater of war. This title details their key role in the conquests of Singapore and Malaya, as well as their later use in Burma, Saipan, and the Philippines, including... -
Bushido Explained: The Japanese Samurai Code: A New Interpretation for Beginners Alexander Bennett 9784805315071
RRP: £14.99£9.80This seminal work by historian Alexander Bennett presents a broad overview of the Japanese "Way of the Warrior" as it is expressed in scores of classical Japanese texts written by famous Samurai themselves.Bennett's analysis of these writings shows that... -
Samurai in 100 Objects by Stephen Turnbull
£17.40From lowly attendants (samurai literally means 'those who serve') to members one of the world's most powerful military organisations, the samurai underwent a progression of changes to reach a preeminent position in Japanese society and culture. Even... -
Pacific Profiles - Volume Four: Allied Fighters: Vought F4u Corsair Series Solomons Theatre 1943-1944 by Michael Claringbould 9780648926238
RRP: £24.95£23.09The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII profiles to date of aircraft which served in the Pacific theatre. Volume Four focuses on the US Navy, US Marine Corps and RNZAF squadrons which operated land based F4U series Corsair fighters... -
Geishas and the Floating World: Inside Tokyo's Yoshiwara Pleasure District Stephen Longstreet 9784805315439
RRP: £12.99£8.60Geishas and the Floating World returns readers to a lost world of sensuality and seduction, rich with hedonism, abandon, and sexual and personal politics."Floating World" refers to Japan's traditional Geisha pleasure districts, but also to the artistic... -
Samurai: The Last Warrior: A History by John Man 9780062202673
RRP: £16.99£12.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062202673Author John ManFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Samurai: The Heart of the Prophet by Jean-Francois Di Giorgio 9781782763376
RRP: £22.99£11.75Takeo has finally achieved his dream; he has left behind the darkness of his past and become a Samurai. Yet Imperial Japan is in turmoil; General Akuma, one of the Empire's most powerful men has turned his back on the Emperor, and is planning to betray... -
Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World by Eri Hotta
RRP: £24.95£20.29A New Yorker Best Book of the YearThe remarkable life of violinist and teacher Shinichi Suzuki, who pioneered an innovative but often-misunderstood philosophy of early childhood education-now known the world over as the Suzuki Method.The name Shinichi... -
Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941 by David C. Evans
RRP: £37.95£29.52One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire stridently confronting, in 1941, the world's most powerful nation. Years... -
When the Shooting Stopped: August 1945 Barrett Tillman 9781472848987
RRP: £25.00£18.02"Highly recommended as a sobering but enlightening account." Richard B. Frank, author of Downfall: The End of the Japanese Empire In the 44 months between December 1941 and August 1945, the Pacific Theater absorbed the attention of the American nation... -
Discovering The True Self: Kodo Sawaki's Art of Zen Meditation Kodo Sawaki 9781640093775
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640093775Author Kodo SawakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell 9780316309301
RRP: £18.99£15.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316309301Author Malcolm GladwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Darkest Hour, Volume 1: The Japanese Offensive in the Indian Ocean by Michal A Piegzik
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070616Author Michal A PiegzikFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train by Jessamyn Abel 9781503629943
RRP: £23.99£20.84A symbol of the "new Japan" displayed at World's Fairs, depicted in travel posters, and celebrated as the product of a national spirit of innovation, the Tokaido Shinkansen-the first bullet train, dubbed the "dream super-express"-represents the bold... -
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
RRP: £17.99£16.31Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of... -
Otaku Japan: The Fascinating World of Japanese Manga, Anime, Gaming, Cosplay, Toys, Idols and More! (Covers over 450 locations with more than 400 photographs and 21 maps) by Gianni Simone
RRP: £15.99£10.66Transport yourself to the global capital of cool with this ultimate guide to Japanese pop culture!Are you crazy about Japanese manga, anime, video games, cosplay, toys and idols? If so, this book is for you! Whether you're planning a trip to Japan, have... -
Autobiography of a ZEN Monk by Roshi Taisen Deshimaru
RRP: £24.00£21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942493723Author Roshi Taisen DeshimaruFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Hohm Press,U.S.Publisher Hohm Press,U.S. -
New Japan Architecture: Recent Works by the World's Leading Architects Geeta Mehta 9780804857192
RRP: £12.99£9.60Featuring dozens of high-quality photographs, schematic designs and insightful commentary this Japanese architecture book is a must-have for architects or collectors.The past five years are widely considered to have been the most innovative period in... -
Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power by Sheila A. Smith 9780674293953
RRP: £20.95£16.88"Washington's relationship with Tokyo is generally considered the most important of the United States' 70-odd alliances. In this intimately knowledgeable book, Smith shows how that alliance looks to the Japanese: increasingly unreliable."-Andrew J... -
Japanese Aircraft Equipment: 1940-1945 by Robert C. Mikesh
RRP: £63.99£41.70As a companion book to the previously published Japanese Aircraft Interiors, by the same author, this book defines more closely the equipment that outfitted these aircraft. There are chapters on such aircraft installed equipment as instruments, radios,... -
Peasants, Rebels, Women, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan by Mikiso Hane 9781442274174
RRP: £40.00£36.96This compelling social history uses diaries, memoirs, fiction, trial testimony, personal recollections, and eyewitness accounts to weave a fascinating tale of what ordinary Japanese endured throughout their country's era of economic growth. Through... -
Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age by Mark McLelland 9780742537873
RRP: £55.00£48.03Scholarship on Japan has recently broadened to include minority perspectives on communities from marginal workers to those whose sexuality has long been overlooked. This volume, with its combination of fieldwork in the gay and lesbian communities and the... -
The Culture of Japanese Fascism by Alan Tansman 9780822344681
RRP: £25.99£22.89This bold collection of essays demonstrates the necessity of understanding fascism in cultural terms rather than only or even primarily in terms of political structures and events. Contributors from history, literature, film, art history, and... -
African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan by Thomas Lockley 9781335044983
RRP: £19.99£12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335044983Author Thomas LockleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)... -
Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps by Karen Wigen
£39.23Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical atlases. Young Japanese children are taught how to properly map their classrooms and schoolgrounds. Elderly retirees pore over... -
Japan 1941 by Eri Hotta
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307739742Author Eri HottaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Japan from Anime to Zen: Quick Takes on Culture, Art, History, Food . . . and More by David Watts Barton
RRP: £13.99£12.25This friendly guide offers concise but detailed demystifications of more than 85 aspects of ancient and modern Japan. It can be read in sequence, or just dipped into, depending on the moment's need. Explanations go much deeper than a typical travel guide... -
Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan by Sho Konishi 9780674073319
RRP: £41.95£34.00Mid-nineteenth century Russian radicals who witnessed the Meiji Restoration saw it as the most sweeping revolution in recent history and the impetus for future global progress. Acting outside imperial encounters, they initiated underground transnational... -
The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia by Sheila Miyoshi Jager 9780674983397
RRP: £33.95£28.73A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars.In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two "great games": one, well known, pitted... -
Japan's Postwar History by Gary D. Allinson
RRP: £24.99£21.67Reviews 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 well... -
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman 9780312429706
RRP: £24.00£15.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312429706Author Michael NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Postwar Japan as History by Andrew Gordon
RRP: £31.00£24.43Japan's catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the 45 years of postwar Japan through the lens of history. The contributors to this book seek to offer such a view. As they examine three... -
Mitsubishi Babs Vol. 1: The World's First High-Speed Strategic Reconnaissance Aircraft by Giuseppe Picarella
RRP: £40.00£35.86This book was written to redress this imbalance and tell the true story behind the development and operational deployment of the world's first high-speed strategic reconnaissance aircraft, which began 6,000 miles further east and four years prior to the... -
O-umajirushi: A 17th-Century Compendium of Samurai Heraldry by Xavid "kihō" Pretzer 9780692377406
RRP: £25.00£18.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692377406Author Xavid "kihō" PretzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Xavid PretzerPublisher Xavid PretzerWeight(grams) 626g -
Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life During the Age of the Shoguns by Constantine Vaporis
RRP: £36.99£32.93In this newly revised and updated 2nd edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan, Constantine Nomikos Vaporis offers an accessible collection of annotated historical documents of an extraordinary period in Japanese history, ranging from the unification of... -
The United Nations in Japan's Foreign and Security Policymaking, 1945-1992: National Security, Party Politics, and International Status by Liang Pan
RRP: £37.95£30.91In the mid-1950s, as part of Tokyo's goal of reinstating Japan as a full member of the international community, Japan sought and gained admittance to the United Nations. Since then, it has been a proactive member and a generous financial contributor to... -
Japan: The Paradox of Harmony by Keiko Hirata
RRP: £30.00£24.57A well-rounded, well-informed critique of the Pacific island nation of Japan, its society, economy, demography, and politics Following a crushing defeat in World War II, Japan rose like a phoenix from the literal ashes to become a model of modernity and...