Japan category: 1648 books
Le massacre de Nankin
Un effroyable épisode de la guerre sino-japonaise
Language: French
Release Date: March 13, 2018
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Au cours de l'été 1937, la Chine et le Japon entrent en guerre. Lorsque Shanghai tombe, l'armée impériale japonaise avance sur Nankin et l'occupe à partir du 13 décembre 1937 : débute...
Japanese Electoral Politics
Creating a New Party System
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The old Japanese single-party system collapsed in 1993, but a new system has not yet fully evolved.
Following the most significant party reform in Japanese history, this book analyses the most recent national elections, examining voter behaviour and how it is influenced. It provides a comprehensive...
The Characteristics of the Japanese People
Story of the last century
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The Japanese are distinguished by a yellowish skin, straight black hair, scanty beard, almost total absence of hair on the arms, legs, and chest, broadish prominent cheek-bones, and more or less obliquely set eyes. These, with the other characteristics to be mentioned presently, are common both to...
by Ian Nish
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5 has been seen as the turning point of the development of the modern world. Written by a specialist in Japanese diplomacy, this book has been described by the Times Higher Education Supplement as 'diplomatic history at its very best'.
Dynamics of Change in East Asia
Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Over the past forty years, East Asia has been radically transformed from a war-damaged sub-continent to a region of global pre-eminence. With new, highly developed scientific resources, great economic strengths, significant global trading links and equally powerful financial resources, East Asia is...
Japanese Taiwan
Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Colonial agents worked for fifty years to make a Japanese Taiwan, using technology, culture, statistics, trade, and modern ideologies to remake their new territory according to evolving ideas of Japanese empire. Since the end of the Pacific War, this project has been remembered, imagined, nostalgized,...
by Bloomsbury
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Food-focused travel guides for the world's most exciting cities
This book is a food tour in your pocket, featuring more than 100 of the best restaurants, cafes, bars and markets recommended by a team of in-the-know Tokyoites. You'll also find insights into the city's idiosyncratic food culture,...
Japon : L'empire de l'harmonie
L'Âme des Peuples
Language: French
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d'abord les comprendre
Les Japonais vivent au présent. Le temps glisse sur l’Archipel, emportant avec lui les joies comme les malheurs. Le tsunami de mars 2011, à l’origine du pire accident nucléaire de l’histoire, reste une plaie ouverte,...
The Bonin Islanders, 1830 to the Present
Narrating Japanese Nationality
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
This book is a collection of interwoven historical narratives that present an intriguing and little known account of the Ogasawara (Bonin) archipelago and its inhabitants. The narratives begin in the seventeenth century and weave their way through various events connected to the ambitions, hopes,...
Escape from the Japanese
The Amazing Tale of a PoWs Journey from Hong Kong to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Trapped in the depths of Japanese-held territory, it was rare for Allied prisoners of war to attempt escape. There was little chance of making contact with anti-guerrilla or underground organisations and no possibility of Europeans blending in with the local Asian populations. Failure, and recapture,...
Italia-Giappone e ritorno.
34.000 km in moto in due mesi
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 28, 2012
34.000 km da percorrere in motocicletta in meno di due mesi. 8 Stati, 10 fusi orari, e poi il ritorno. Il continente più grande, l’Asia, da attraversare per due volte. Una moto con 700.000 km sotto le ruote. Una persona. Un sogno da realizzare. Strade disastrate, burocrazie incomprensibili, spazi...
The Usurper
An Episode in Japanese History
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
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CHAPTER I.
THE LEMON GROVE.
Night was nearly gone. All slept in the beautiful bright city of Osaka. The harsh cry of the sentinels, calling one to another on the ramparts, broke the silence, unruffled otherwise save for the distant murmur...
La cour de Nara
La Poétesse des Impératrices - Tome 1
Language: French
Release Date: June 17, 2018
Banzaï ! Dix mille ans de vie !
C’est le cri de joie du peuple japonais quand un nouvel empereur monte sur le trône.
En l’an 686, quand l’impératrice Jito règne, le Japon est en pleine émergence. Le culte de Bouddha a été installé par l’impératrice Suiko, amenant un...