Japan category: 1648 books
An Otaku Abroad
The Affordable Japan Experience for Anime and Manga Fans
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Anime and manga fans (otaku) dream of entering the magical world of Japanese animation and graphic novels. This book is a guide to visiting Japan for the otaku who wants to live that dream! Learn how to plan your trip and as well as tips and tricks for keeping your costs under control. College students...
by Lucas Peyton Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Kyoto - founded in the year 794 and capital of Japan for fully half that nation's recorded history - sits firmly in the center of Lucas Peyton Thomas's compelling, vivid history of Japan. Here, in vibrant detail, are the stories of the rise and fall of Japan's aristocracy, of the days of the shoguns...
by Robert Neff
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Complete with maps and extensive advice, this guide to Japan's hot springs is an invaluable resource for anyone travelling to Japan.
Easier to get to than many might imagine, Japan's hidden hot springs are among the few remaining repositories of ancient Japanese ambiance and sensibility. Bucolic...
Samurai William
The Englishman Who Opened Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2003
An eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg
In 1611, the merchants of London's East India Company received a mysterious letter from Japan, written several years previously by a marooned English mariner named William...
Village Japan
Everyday Life in a Rural Japanese Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
In this elegiac account that is part travelogue, part memoir, British poet and writer Malcolm Ritchie recounts his and his wife's unforgettable three-year-sojourn in Sora, a remote farming and fishing village on the Japan Sea coast.
Ritchie weaves together anecdotes, conversations, lyrical...
A Brief History of Japan
Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion.
First revealed to Westerners in the chronicles...
by Dr Stephen Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
In 1467 the Onin War ushered in a period of unrivalled conflict and rivalry in Japan that came to be called the Age of Warring States or Sengoku Jidai. In this book Stephen Turnbull offers a masterly exposition of the Sengoku Jidai, detailing the factors that led to Japan's disintegration into warring...
by Lafcadio Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
This is a complete, two-volume set of one of the greatest books of 19th century Japanese history and culture.
Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books on Japan, this collection of first impressions remains his most popular. Among the reasons is that here, more than anywhere...
Renaissance in Japan
A Cultural Survey of the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Renaissance in Japan is a superb survey of Japan's literary giants-forerunners of today's modern Japanese writers.
Called the "Kyoto epoch," the age in which these writers lived was the period in which Japanese cultural development made many of its greatest advances. In these years...
by Arthur Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
The Creed of Half Japan
by Arthur Lloyd
A comprehensive history of Mahayana Buddhism, particularly in Japan, and possible ties to Gnosticism and early Christianity. Includes two translated texts from the Nichiren school.
This is a scholarly study of the evolution of Mahayana Buddhism...
America and the Japanese Miracle
The Cold War Context of Japan's Postwar Economic Revival, 1950-1960
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
In this book, Aaron Forsberg presents an arresting account of Japan's postwar economic resurgence in a world polarized by the Cold War. His fresh interpretation highlights the many connections between Japan's economic revival and changes that occurred in the wider world during the 1950s.
Drawing...
In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians
A Story of Suppression, Secrecy and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2012
The story of Japan's hidden Christians is the subject of a major motion picture by director Martin Scorsese, based on Shusaku Endo's famous novel, Silence.
From the time the first Christian missionary arrived in Japan in 1549 to when a nationwide ban was issued in 1614, over 300,000 Japanese...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Nationalisms in Japan brings together leading specialists in the field to discuss how notions of ‘nationalism’ in modern Japan impinges on all aspects of social, political and cultural understanding of the Japanese nation or the Japanese state. This book is clearly presented and jargon-free, and...
by Lionel Babicz, Wered Ben-Sade, Michal Daliot-Bul
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
This book introduces a multilayered approach to the study of democracy, combining specific knowledge of Japan with theoretical insights from the literature on democratization. It examines different aspects of Japanese democracy—historical, institutional, and sociocultural—to provide a conscious...