Japan category: 1648 books
by Teresa Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
(Approx 120 Pages)
Our illustrated travel guide features of the best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip in advance and to accompany you on-the-ground.
Finding Internet...
Otaku
Japan's Database Animals
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on within mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture...
Clueless in Tokyo
An Explorer's Sketchbook of Weird and Wonderful Things in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
A perfect introduction to Japan and Japanese culture, this illustrated culture and travel guide contains loads of original drawings as well as the Japanese script for key words and phrases.
Some people take photos, but artist Betty Reynolds captures memories with her paintbrush and watercolors....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Finding your way around Japan is a breeze with this handy Tuttle travel atlas. Designed for the adventurous traveler and containing all the maps you'll need on your explorations, this atlas includes many views and insets not available elsewhere.
The perfect travel guide, this atlas is conveniently...
The Search for the Beautiful Woman
A Cultural History of Japanese and Chinese Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Heian-period Japan. Starting around the Southern Song period in China, bound feet symbolized the attractiveness of women. But in Japan, shaved eyebrows and blackened teeth long were...
Kojiki
Records of Ancient Matters
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Written by imperial command in the eighth century, The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters is Japan's classic of classics, the oldest connected literary work and the fundamental scripture of Shinto.
A more factual history called the Nihongi or Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) was completed...
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque
The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan’s Imperialism, 1895–1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical attention to the peripheries, where figures including Chinese coolies, Japanese pimps, trafficked Japanese...
Japan Under Taisho Tenno
1912-1926
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
A journalist on the Japan Chronicle for eleven years this volume examines the history, economy, politics and society of Japan from just before the First World War until 1926. Japan’s relations with the West, as well as with Russia and China are also discussed.
Science for the Empire
Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
This fascinating study examines the discourse of science in Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation to nationalism and imperialism. How did Japan, with Shinto creation mythology at the absolute core of its national identity, come to promote the advancement of science and technology? Using what...
Japan, the small guide
Advices + What to expect + Visit ideas
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
Welcome to the little guide of Japan.
Welcome to the land of the rising sun and discover this beautiful country. Japan, rich in culture, tradition entertainment and landscape, will transport you in an unforgettable trip. Shared between modernity and tradition you will discover the originality...
by Mary L. Hanneman
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
By 1925 the process of Japan's transition to a modern industrialised, westernised state was pretty much complete. Not only had the imperial tradition been restored with the Meiji Restoration in 1868, but some forms of democratic parliamentary institutions had been set up. However, during the years...
by Jeffrey Record
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Jeffrey Record has specialized in investigating the causes of war. In The Specter of Munich: Reconsidering the Lessons of Appeasing Hitler (Potomac Books, Inc., 2006), he contended that Hitler could not have been deterred from going to war by any action the Allies could plausibly have taken. In Beating...
by Jonathan Clements
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
With almost 13 million residents, Tokyo is now as much an icon of modernity as it is a city, with its neon-lit billboards, futuristic technology, and avant-garde fashion scene. But the long and fascinating history of Japan’s modern capital encompasses much, much more, and in An Armchair Traveller’s...
Japan's Backroom Politics
Factions in a Multiparty Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Japan’s Backroom Politics is the translation of a classic study of the rough and tumble of Japanese politics and conservative party factions in the first two decades of postwar Japan. The original book, published in 1967, was written by the preeminent political writer at the time, Watanabe Tsuneo,...