Japan category: 1648 books
by Christopher Goto-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009
Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products are consumed all over the world, ranging from animated movies and computer games all the way through to cars, semiconductors,...
The Fall of Japan
The Final Weeks of World War II in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
New York Times Bestseller: A “virtually faultless” account of the last weeks of WWII in the Pacific from both Japanese and American perspectives (The New York Times Book Review).
By midsummer 1945, Japan had long since lost the war in the Pacific. The people were not told the truth, and...
by Ben Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
An alternative look at Japanese life, history and culture Your Rough Guide or Lonely Planet book can tell who where to stay or what to see, but how do you really get under the skin of Japan? In this book Ben Stevens explores the serious and the frivolous, the history and the obsessions of a fascinating...
Super Sushi Ramen Express
One Family's Journey Through the Belly of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
From the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People comes Super Sushi Ramen Express, a fascinating and funny culinary journey through Japan
Japan is arguably the preeminent food nation on earth; it’s a mecca for the world’s greatest chefs and has more Michelin stars than any other country....
Japan from A to Z
Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
This Japanese travel guide provides goes beyond the typical guidebook, revealing the underlying cultural and historical reasons for the behavior and attitudes of The Japanese.
Authors Michiko and James Vardaman identify nearly three hundred aspects of Japanese culture, custom, and daily life...
36 Views of Mount Fuji
On Finding Myself in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2006
In 1980 Cathy N. Davidson traveled to Japan to teach English at a leading all-women’s university. It was the first of many journeys and the beginning of a deep and abiding fascination. In this extraordinary book, Davidson depicts a series of intimate moments and small epiphanies that together make...
Japan's Cultural Code Words
Key Terms That Explain the Attitudes and Behavior of the Japanese
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Japan's Cultural Code Words is a study of Japanese society through the understanding of the key terms and concepts that define their attitudes and behaviors.
Japan's traditional culture is still so powerful that it continues to be the prevailing force in molding and tuning the national character...
by Lafcadio Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This collection included: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn, Chita: A Memory of Last Island, Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan First Series, Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan Second Series, In Ghostly Japan, Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation, Kokoro, Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange...
by Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The main objective of CEO guide to doing business in Japan is to provide you with basic knowledge about Japan; an overview of its economy, business culture, potential opportunities and an introduction to other relevant issues. Novice exporters, in particular will find this book a useful starting point.
A Journal from Japan
"A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist"
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
This daily journal was written primarily because I well knew that time would force the swiftly passing incidents and impressions to blur each other in my memory.
Then want of leisure tempted me to send the journal home to friends in place of letters, and the two or three for whom I originally...
Inventing Japan
1853-1964
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his...
Re-Viewing the Past
The Uses of History in the Cinema of Imperial Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Re-Viewing the Past: The Uses of History in the Cinema of Imperial Japan analyzes the complicated relationship between history films, audiences, reviewers and censors in Japan for the critically important years from 1925-1945. First contextualizing the history of the popular "Bakumatsu†? period...
The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan
Histories and Cultures of the Book
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan explores the varying uses of literature in Japan from the late Meiji period to the present, considering how creators, conveyors, and consumers of literary content have treated texts and their authors as cultural resources to be packaged, promoted, and preserved.
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by Insight Guides
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Insight Guides: all you need to inspire every step of your journey.
From deciding when to go, to choosing what to see when you arrive, this is all you need to plan your trip and experience the best of Japan, with in-depth insider information on must-see, top attractions like Mount Fuji and...