Japan category: 1648 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
During its so-called Lost Decades, Japan has quietly reinvented itself from a nation with an economy playing catch-up into a global leader in innovation and creativity, one whose "soft power" extends from postmodern architecture to pluripotent stem cells.
Written by a dozen experts...
by Kazuo Usui
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This book explores the development in Japan throughout the twentieth century of marketing and consumerism. It shows how Japan had a long established indigenous traditional approach to marketing, separate from Western approaches to marketing, and discusses how the Japanese approach to marketing was...
Enjoy Japan
A Personal and highly unofficial Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
This casual Japan travel guide contains a wealth of information for the business traveler or tourist
For several years author, Walt Sheldon has been helping visitors and foreign residents to understand and appreciate things Japanese through the medium of his popular weekly radio program "Enjoy...
Japan Reloaded
The Ultimate Japan Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Japan Reloaded is a MASSIVE collection of everything you need know before going to JAPAN.
Learn about Japan's history, culture, food, buzzwords, religions, languages and culture. For only 4.99, it is a great travel companion!
All facts and tips in this book include source citation...
Foreigners in Japan
A Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2008
Japan began to fascinate the West after the account of Marco Polos sojourn in China. This set off an interest in the oriental world. The Portuguese, being the first, arrived in Japan in 1543 which was followed by others. The experience Japan had with Europeans put upon itself isolation for about 200...
Yokohama and the Silk Trade
How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843–1893
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This study provides a broad political and economic examination of the impact of the silk trade on nineteenth-century Japan. It analyzes the economic role of Japan’s eastern interior region and that of the port of Yokohama. It argues that the economic development in this period laid the foundations...
Modern Japan
A Social and Political History
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of Modern Japan provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan. Ranging from the Tokugawa period to the present day, Tipton links everyday lives with major historical developments, charting...
by Amy Sylvester Katoh
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
This Japanese design and interior decorating book focuses on the traditional country homes of rural Japan
From Japanese antiques to home and garden design, Japan Country Living is a delightful introduction for art and furniture lovers. In over 450 full-color photographs this book presents Japan...
by Jonathan Clements
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Jonathan Clements charts the rise of Japan since the end of World War Two. Presenting the country as the Japanese themselves see it, he explains key issues in national reconstruction, the often-overlooked US Occupation, the influence of the Cold War, student unrest, political scandals, and the meteoric...
Manabeshima Island Japan
One Island, Two Months, One Minicar, Sixty Crabs, Eighty Bites and Fifty Shots of Shochu
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
More than just a Japan travel guide, Manabeshima Island Japan paints a colorful and entertaining picture of a particular place and time in Japan.
Japan is made up of thousands of sacred islands, artificial islands, industrial islands, resort islands, wild islands and exploding islands…but...
Bushido: The Samurai Code of Japan
With an Extensive Introduction and Notes by Alexander Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Bushido: The Samurai Code of Japan is the most influential book ever written on the Japanese "Way of the Warrior." A classic study of Japanese culture, the book outlines the moral code of the Samurai way of living and the virtues every Samurai warrior holds dear. It is widely read today...
by Charles Tuttle
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Incredible Japan is a crash course in Japanese culture
It is an introduction to those inimitable aspects of Japan which are necessarily alien to the foreign observer. With delightful cartoons by the Japanese artistt—illustrator, Masakazu Kuwata.
The book proves that what is incredible...
by Viscount Kencho Suematsu
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
"A FANTASY OF FAR JAPAN OR SUMMER DREAM DIALOGUES" was originally published in 1905. The book "depicts Japanese ideals and notions at the turn of the century, as well as some historical facts which seemed likely to interest those of the sympathetic Western public who may be inclined...
Glimpses of the Rising Sun
Personal Essays About Japan
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
Glimpses of the Rising Sun isn’t your typical travel book. It isn't even your typical book about Japan.
I don’t focus on the so-called must-see attractions of the country's major cities. I don’t endlessly bemoan how expensive Japan can be. I don’t marvel at the technology or the orderliness...