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This is the second installment of Kaoru Hayashi's Okinawa Photobook, A Trip to Okinawa 2: Strolling around Naha and Shuri. This product isn't a comprehensive guidebook to Okinawa; rather, it's a collection of 53 photographs on the theme of "strolling around Naha and Shuri" taken during the...

Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives makes available for the first time to English readership a selection of viewpoints from media practitioners, designers, educators, and scholars working in the East Asian Pacific. This collection not only engages a multidisciplinary approach in understanding...

There is a persistent misunderstanding on Comfort Women among English speaking people. Several communities in the U.S. are building a memorial for them accusing human rights violations by the Japanese government, claiming that Comfort Women were “Sex-Slaves.” This book provides solid bases for...

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four hundred years before Basho even began to write. These early poems, known as hokku, are identical to haiku...

The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and...

In 1995, an Okinawan schoolgirl was brutally raped by several U.S. servicemen. The incident triggered a chain of protests by women's groups, teachers' associations, labor unions, reformist political parties, and various grassroots organizations across Okinawa prefecture. Reaction to the crime culminated...

As one of Okinawa's most insightful writers and social critics, Medoruma Shun has highlighted the problems and limits of conventional representation of the Battle of Okinawa, raised new questions and concerns about the nature of Okinawan war memory, and expanded the possibilities of representing war...

Japanese Armies invaded an almost defenseless Burma in 1942, sending tens of thousands fleeing over the mountains to India. They ruled the remaining Burmese, whom they boasted of liberating from British rule, with arrogance and brutality. Violet's Flight narrates the experiences of a young Anglo-Burmese...

Seoul is filled with energy and spirit – a highly cultured city with the most majestic sights to behold. No wonder, flocks of tourists come here each year to take a peek. The atmosphere is like no other with a unique blend of old and new traditions combined with high end technology and fashion....

This cutting edge collection presents a political reading of the power of modern sport in Asia. Providing an interdisciplinary study of political and cultural tensions in Asia, past and present, through the key case-study of sport, it illuminates the complex practices and legacies of Japanese imperialism...

Explore Tokyo is from the popular series by insight and is the ideal companion when discovering this exciting city. Covering unique experiences exclusive to Tokyo, such as where to go for the best hot-spring bath, to the finest sushi breakfast. This itinerary-based guide provides details of the City's...

Lo scopo di questo scritto è dimostrare che il sistema giapponese, applicato alla vita quotidiana ed alle relazioni umane, genera una realtà tragicomica, inimmaginabile per chiunque, popolazione locale inclusa. Lo stile di vita nipponico rappresenta una ideale ricetta della infelicità, per le persone...

Nueva edición digital revisada y comentada con hipervínculos a páginas webs seleccionadas. Japón y Corea, forman parte del recorrido que en 1923 hizo por todo el mundo el genial novelista y aventurero millonario, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, a bordo del Transatlántico Franconia....