Japan Publishing Industry Foundation For Culture imprint: 32 books
The People and Culture of Japan
Conversations Between Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This book features conversations between Donald Keene, a preeminent scholar of Japanese literature, and Shiba Ryotaro, the author who continued to contemplate the human condition through his original and distinctive lens of history. These talks—which mainly explore the foundation of Japanese culture—took...
The People and Culture of Japan
Conversations Between Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This book features conversations between Donald Keene, a preeminent scholar of Japanese literature, and Shiba Ryotaro, the author who continued to contemplate the human condition through his original and distinctive lens of history. These talks—which mainly explore the foundation of Japanese culture—took...
by Donald KEENE, Ryotaro SHIBA
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Edo Japan Encounters the World continues the conversation, begun nearly twenty years earlier in The People and Culture of Japan, between scholar of Japanese literature Donald Keene and historical novelist Shiba Ryotaro. In discussions that took place in Osaka and Kyoto from 1989 to 1990, these two...
An Introduction to Yokai Culture
Monsters, Ghosts, and Outsiders in Japanese History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Since ancient times, the Japanese have lived with superstitions of strange presences and phenomena known as "yokai," creating a culture by turns infused with unease, fear, and divinity. Tsukimono spirit possessions. Fearsome kappa, oni, and tengu. Yamauba crones. Ghostly yurei. Otherworldy...
An Introduction to Yokai Culture
Monsters, Ghosts, and Outsiders in Japanese History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Since ancient times, the Japanese have lived with superstitions of strange presences and phenomena known as "yokai," creating a culture by turns infused with unease, fear, and divinity. Tsukimono spirit possessions. Fearsome kappa, oni, and tengu. Yamauba crones. Ghostly yurei. Otherworldy...
Fifteen Lectures on Showa Japan
Road to the Pacific War in Recent Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Why did Showa Japan rush to war? Where did Japan fail? This compilation of the most up-to-date studies by 15 leading Japanese historians tries to find answers to these questions. Each chapter contains a list of selected reference books with brief annotations for the benefit of readers who wish to...
Myth and Deity in Japan
The Interplay of Kami and Buddhas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Shinto is a tradition native to Japan that arose naturally on the eastern fringe of the Eurasian continent and was woven over many years into the fabric of people's everyday lives. When Buddhism entered the country in the sixth century, the two religions-rather than competing with or seeking to marginalize...
Fifteen Lectures on Showa Japan
Road to the Pacific War in Recent Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Why did Showa Japan rush to war? Where did Japan fail? This compilation of the most up-to-date studies by 15 leading Japanese historians tries to find answers to these questions. Each chapter contains a list of selected reference books with brief annotations for the benefit of readers who wish to...
by Akihiro SADO
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In 1947, Japan eternally renounced war and the possession of armed forces with its constitution. How, then, did the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) survive, moreover, evolve over the ensuing 70 years into the prominent presence it is today? Sado Akihiro reviews the JSDF's history chiefly from the...
Myth and Deity in Japan
The Interplay of Kami and Buddhas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Shinto is a tradition native to Japan that arose naturally on the eastern fringe of the Eurasian continent and was woven over many years into the fabric of people's everyday lives. When Buddhism entered the country in the sixth century, the two religions-rather than competing with or seeking to marginalize...
by Akihiro SADO
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In 1947, Japan eternally renounced war and the possession of armed forces with its constitution. How, then, did the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) survive, moreover, evolve over the ensuing 70 years into the prominent presence it is today? Sado Akihiro reviews the JSDF's history chiefly from the...
The Entrepreneur Who Built Modern Japan
Shibusawa Eiichi
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In this penetrating biography of Shibusawa Eiichi (1840-1931), one of Japan's foremost entrepreneurs, Shimada Masakazu traces Shibusawa's youth, when he witnessed the decay of Japan's feudal society and experienced the benefits of modernization at first hand in Europe; his service in the Ministry...
Kabuki, a Mirror of Japan
Ten Plays That Offer a Glimpse into Evolving Sensibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In this delightfully engaging look at Japan’s traditional dance-drama, Matsui Kesako approaches kabuki in the same way a paleontologist might examine geological layers, with each play revealing a fascinating story about the time and place in which it was created and performed. Starting with Danjuro...
The Entrepreneur Who Built Modern Japan
Shibusawa Eiichi
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In this penetrating biography of Shibusawa Eiichi (1840-1931), one of Japan's foremost entrepreneurs, Shimada Masakazu traces Shibusawa's youth, when he witnessed the decay of Japan's feudal society and experienced the benefits of modernization at first hand in Europe; his service in the Ministry...