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Japan
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
The emergence of Japan as a political and economic global power has been one of the most remarkable success stories of modern history. Though small in geographic area, the archipelago is the tenth most populous country, with 128 million inhabitants crowded into an area the size of Montana. Its natural...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
The nation state as we know it is a mere four or five hundred years old. Remarkably, a central government with vast territorial control emerged in Japan at around the same time as it did in Europe, through the process of mobilizing fiscal resources and manpower for bloody wars between the 16th and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Nationalism was one of the most important forces in 20th century Japan. It pervaded almost all aspects of Japanese life, but was a complex phenomenon, frequently changing, and often meaning different things to different people. This book brings together interesting, original new work, by a range of...
by E E N Causton
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Manchurian "Incident" of 1931 led to a Japanese occupation, the birth of Manchoukuo and the withdrawal of Japan from the League of Nations. At the time it seemed as if the army and navy were exerting a supreme influence. This volume points out that this influence is not new and that...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
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Japan
The Facts of Modern Business and Social Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
James Rebischung's intention is to report as objectively as possible on the current Japanese scene and to provide a more balanced view of Japan that is usually given in travel folders, official publications, magazine reports, and art books. To believe, as many people do, that Japan is either a tourist...
Taiko
An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
In the tempestuous closing decades of the sixteenth century, the Empire of Japan writhes in chaos as the shogunate crumbles and rival warlords battle for supremacy. Warrior monks in their armed citadels block the road to the capital; castles are destroyed, villages plundered, fields put to the torch.
Amid...
The Samurai Warrior
The Golden Age of Japan’s Elite Warriors 15601615
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
During Japan’s Warring States period, centuries of strife had left the country divided and leaderless. Those who filled the power vacuum were the daimyo, warlords who ruled over the clans and provinces of Japan. Serving their daimyo, the samurai were the ultimate warriors at a time when military prowess...
Shades of the Past
Indiscreet Tales of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Prowling among these stories about Japan one finds riffraff and gentlemen, pirates and warriors, saints and sinners, smugglers and legitimate businessmen.
All those, in fact, who made up the foreign communities of Japan in the early days. Harold S. Williams tells about them with the same inimitable...
A Fool's Journey
Walking Japan's Inland Route in Search of a Notion
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
“I had been here before: I was going from being a mere ‘interpreter’ to being a ‘cultural interpreter.’ It was a dangerous path to tread.”
Walking Japan's ancient inland route in search of a vague romantic notion, the author encounters a string of idiosyncratic characters, locals...
Japanese Things
Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Armchair travelers beware!
Japanese Things will lure you out of your cozy, comfy home and chair to an unusual country with bewitching manners and customs-and once you have succumbed to its spell you will never be the same. Here in one neat package you will meet the flavor, charm, and piquancy...
by Dr Stephen Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
From his seat in Xanadu, the great Mongol Emperor of China, Kubla Khan, had long plotted an invasion of Japan. However, it was only with the acquisition of Korea, that the Khan gained the maritime resources necessary for such a major amphibious operation. Written by expert Stephen Turnbull, this book...
Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan
A Complex Adaptive Systems Theory Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan utilizes the theoretical model of complex adaptive systems and introduces the concept of function-based spatiality to investigate the roles of the urban environments of Tokyo and Osaka in the development of Korean communities...
Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia
Studies in Taiwan-Japan Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that explores the intertwined histories of Taiwan and Japan across the long sweep of the early modern and modern periods. Drawing on new research by scholars from Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, it moves beyond...