Japan category: 1648 books
by Mayumi Yoshida Barakan, Judith Connor Greer
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
The Tokyo New City Guide goes far beyond the well-worn tourist itineraries and deep into the complex, highly contrasted heart of one of the world's largest and most exciting cities.
This lively, up-to-the-minute Japan travel guide covers modern Tokyo like no other. Here's where you will find...
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
The Sarashina Diary, The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu, The Diary of Izumi Shikibu (Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
The poems in the text, slight and occasional as they are, depending often for their charm on plays upon words of two meanings, or on the suggestions conveyed to the Japanese mind by a single word, have presented problems of great difficulty to the translators, not perfectly overcome. Izumi Shikibu's...
Strong in the Rain
Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Blending history, science, and gripping storytelling, Strong in the Rain brings the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan in 2011 and its immediate aftermath to life through the eyes of the men and women who experienced it. Following the narratives of six individuals, the book traces the shape...
First Into Nagasaki
The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe, Africa, and Asia. At the war’s end in September 1945, under General MacArthur’s media blackout, correspondents were forbidden to enter both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. But instead of obediently staying with...
The World War II Chronicles
The Fall of Japan and Enemy at the Gates
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A “virtually faultless” account of the final weeks of World War II in the Pacific and the definitive history of the battle for Stalingrad together in one volume (The New York Times Book Review).
Author William Craig traveled to three different continents, reviewed thousands of documents,...
by William de Lange
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The medieval era of Japan was marked by a century of civil strife known as the Warring States period (1469-1573). The century prior had seen the sword replace the bow and arrow as the chief weapon of the samurai, thus setting the stage for this golden age of Japanese swordsmanship. Every man who called...
by William de Lange
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
After more than two centuries of civil strife Japan was finding its way back to peace and order during the Period of Unification (1573-1615). The final drive came in the fall of 1600, when the massed eastern and western warlords faced each other in the decisive Battle of Sekigahara, in which every...
Pacific Onslaught
7th Dec. 1941/7th Feb. 1943
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
A look at the early years of the Pacific conflict in World War II, by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.
Japan had mighty ambitions: to control the Western Pacific. The attack on Pearl Harbor devastated their primary obstacle—the American Pacific...
by Agis Neugebauer, Warlord Games
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Following the assault on Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese military saw action across Asia, from the capture and defence of the islands of the Pacific to the occupation of territory in China and Burma. With this latest supplement for Bolt Action, players have all the information they need to build...
Supreme Commander
MacArthur's Triumph in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Seymour Morris Jr. combines political history, military biography, and business management to tell the story of General Douglas MacArthur's tremendous success in rebuilding Japan after World War II in Supreme Commander, a lively, in-depth work of biographical history complementary to The Generals,...
by Archie Miyamoto
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
The Japanese military is accused of abducting 200,000 women, mostly from Korea, and using them as sex slaves. WWII military records provide a completely different perspective. This is a compilation of primary source documents, mostly WWII military records of U.S., Allied, Dutch, Australian and...
by Dr Stephen Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
From when the Empress Jingo-kogo led an invasion of Korea while pregnant with the future Emperor Ojin, tales of female Japanese warriors have emerged from Japan's rich history. Using material that has never been translated into English before, this book presents the story of Japan's female warriors...
The Knights of Bushido
A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
From the author of The Scourge of the Swastika: “A grim record of massacre and murder, of torture, slave labor, and starvation” (The New York Times).
The war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo meted out the Allies’ official justice; Lord Russell of Liverpool’s sensational bestselling...
Asia Betrayed
How Churchill Sacrificed the Far East to Save England
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
"Somebody knew. Who knew?" Did Winston Churchill lure Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor as a cynical ruse to pull the United States into the war against the Nazis to save England? Did he deliberately weaken the defenses of Singapore and Hong Kong to convince the Japanese to jump? Did he...