Japan category: 1648 books
Super Cheap Japan
Budget Travel in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, Hiroshima and Surrounding Areas
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Super Cheap Japan is the ultimate budget travel guide to Japan, full of the most useful, up-to-date information for a cheap holiday in Japan. With extensive tax-free shopping, crazily discounted train passes and an unbelievable exchange rate, there has never been a better time to visit. Unlike other...
Guidable Japan 101
Ultimate guide for beginners in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Having Cold Feet Moving to Japan? KEEP CALM and Get ‘Guidable Japan 101’!
All you need to know about Japan from entry at the airport, finding accommodation, basic Know-How's to studying, working, earthquake preparation and more! Besides Traditions and Customs as well as other...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
This important December 2017 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Meiji Japanese leaders consisted of an oligarchy that strived to overcome Western imperialist pressures in Asia. They did so by overturning some deeply rooted Tokugawa-Era...
by R. Taggart Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains one of the most remarkable stories in modern world history. Yet it has not been an easy path; military catastrophe, political atrophy, and economic upheavals...
Japan Restored
How Japan Can Reinvent Itself and Why This Is Important for America and the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
How Japan Can Reinvent Itself and Why This Is Important for America and the World.
In 1979, the book Japan as Number One: Lessons for America by Harvard University professor Ezra Vogel caused a sensation in the United States by pointing out that Japan was surpassing America as world economic...
by Mark Pendergrast
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
JAPAN'S TIPPING POINT is a small book on a huge topic. In the post-Fukushima era, Japan is the "canary in the coal mine" for the rest of the world. Can Japan radically shift its energy policy, become greener, more self-sufficient, and avoid catastrophic impacts on the climate? Mark Pendergrast...
History of Japan
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
A classic of Japanese history, this book is the preeminent work on the history of Japan.
Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume, complete history of the nation of Japan. Starting in ancient Japan during its early pre-history period A History of Japan covers every important...
Bending Adversity
Japan and the Art of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
“[A]n excellent book...” —The Economist
Financial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan, drawing on his own deep experience, as well as observations from a cross section of Japanese citizenry, including novelist Haruki Murakami, former prime minister Junichiro...
by Henry Albinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
History of Japan book includes, Japan economy, Japan old and present civilization, Japan art and culture, Japan government and people, Japan tourism.Nothing similar may be found in foreign lands," wrote Kitabatake Chikafusa when he described Japan in his fourteenthcentury Jinno sh t ki (Chronicle...
Japan Rising
The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Japan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the "lost decade" of the 1990s, Japan is quietly, stealthily awakening. As Japan prepares to become a major player in the strategic struggles of the 21st century, critical questions...
Japan After Japan
Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2006
The prolonged downturn in the Japanese economy that began during the recessionary 1990s triggered a complex set of reactions both within Japan and abroad, reshaping not only the country’s economy but also its politics, society, and culture. In Japan After Japan, scholars of history, anthropology,...
Japan's World Heritage Sites
Unique Culture, Unique Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
"It's a nice tome for armchair travel, whisking you off around the country from where you sit—or time travel, taking you back to that life-changing decade-lost holiday and old friends."—The Japan Times
Visit the most compelling cultural and nature sites in all of Japan with this...
by Jim Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Jim Stewart's Sake Breweries of Japan: Tokyo, Kyoto, and Kobe is the ultimate travel guide for those visiting Japan and who want to experience Japan’s national drink. It guides you from airport or train station right to sake breweries in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Kobe. With detailed information about the...
Securing Japan
Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
For the past sixty years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan's security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. Korea's nuclear program, China's rise, and the relative decline of U.S. power have commanded...