Japan category: 1648 books
Defending Japan's Pacific War
The Kyoto School Philosophers and Post-White Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
This book puts forward a revisionist view of Japanese wartime thinking. It seeks to explore why Japanese intellectuals, historians and philosophers of the time insisted that Japan had to turn its back on the West and attack the United States and the British Empire. Based on a close reading of the...
Shinto
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Distinguished scholar of Japanese religions and culture Helen Hardacre offers the first comprehensive history of Shinto, the ancient and vibrant tradition whose colorful rituals are still practiced today. Under the ideal of Shinto, a divinely descended emperor governs through rituals offered to deities...
The Company and the Shogun
The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which it possessed no obvious place and was transformed in the process.
This study focuses on the...
by Ezra F. Vogel, Suzanne Hall Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This classic study on the sociology of Japan remains the only in-depth treatment of the Japanese middle class. Now in a fiftieth-anniversary edition that includes a new foreword by William W. Kelly, this seminal work paints a rich and complex picture of the life of the salaryman and his family.
In...
by Turolo Stefano
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Not the usual travel guide, but an "instruction manual" on how to enjoy a wonderful holiday in Japan. It is easy to find a good restaurant, there are tons of books about that. but it is not so easy how to take a bus ticket, or an underground ticket. Do you know that you not go in a onsen if you have tatoo? These and more other are in this not usual travel book.
by Peter Ninnes
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Seen the big cities and tourist havens of Japan? This detailed and very handy guidebook provides you with a new and enchanting way to experience this fascinating country, just 2 hours from Tokyo. Tour the mountains, towns, villages and farms of Chikuma City in rugged Nagano, Japan, and experience...
Super Cheap Hokkaido
The Ultimate Budget Travel Guide to Sapporo and the Hokkaido Prefecture
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
Super Cheap Hokkaido is the perfect companion for a budget holiday to Sapporo and the surrounding Hokkaido prefecture. A follow-up to the bestselling Super Cheap Japan guidebook, this book will show you exactly how, where and when you can save money on your trip. Spend next to nothing drinking local...
Tokyo Geek's Guide
Manga, Anime, Gaming, Cosplay, Toys, Idols & More - The Ultimate Guide to Japan's Otaku Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Tokyo is ground zero for Japan's famous "geek" or otaku culture—a phenomenon that has now swept across the globe.
This is the most comprehensive Japan travel guide ever produced which features Tokyo's geeky underworld. It provides a comprehensive run-down of each major Tokyo district...
by Stephan Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
The story of Japanese involvement in WWII is one that includes a number of amazing events between 1939 and 1945. The Japanese went from fighting against just the Chinese to attempting to practically take on the entire world at the one time.
Inside you will learn about...
✓ The Attack on...
Chika
Bizarre true accounts of train and street groping in Tokyo, Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
It is generally acknowledged that there are unusually high incidence rates of molestation in Japan, especially aboard trains and buses but also in pubs and clubs, in the workplace and in the street. Many of these cases go unreported as Japanese victims do not want to draw attention to themselves. In...
Discover Unknown Tokyo - Joyful Minowa Shopping Street
The Backpacker’s Guide to Unknown Sightseeing Spots in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
(English edition 1.0)
This guidebook introduces a nostalgic street Joyful Minowa shopping Street (ジョイフル三の輪商店街) in Tokyo,
Japan.
I know that international tourists usually go to really famous shopping and sightseeing places. The places
often look gorgeous...
The Heart of Japan (Routledge Revivals)
Glimpses of Life and Nature Far From the Travellers' Track in the Land of the Rising Sun
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This collection of commentaries and reflections on Japanese culture, first published in 1904, was written shortly after the return of two English aristocrats from five years spent immersed in the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’. Their intention through these anecdotes – some humorous and charming,...
Tsushima 1905
Death of a Russian Fleet
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Japan was closed to the world until 1854 and its technology then was literally medieval. Great Britain, France and Russia divided the globe in the nineteenth century, but Japan was catching up. Its army and navy were retrained by Western powers and equipped with the latest weapons and ships. Japan...
Britain and Japan
Biographical Portraits, Vol. IV
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The continuing success of this series, highly regarded by scholars and the general reader alike, has prompted The Japan Society to commission this fourth volume, devoted as before to the lives of key people, both British and Japanese, who have made significant contributions to the development of Anglo-Japanese...