Japan category: 1648 books
Yokohama Yankee
My Family's Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Leslie D. Helm's decision to adopt Japanese children launches him on a personal journey through his family's 140 years in Japan, beginning with his great-grandfather, who worked as a military advisor in 1870 and defied custom to marry his Japanese mistress. The family's poignant experiences of love...
by Paul Broadhead
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
The day before Paul Broadhead was due to travel to Japan for the first time, an earthquake and tsunami rocked the North East coast of the country, killing thousands and leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Undeterred, he flew out for a three week trip through a country coming to terms with...
Civilization and Monsters
Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2000
Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the “stuff” of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind...
by Michael Wise
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Travellers in search of the unexpected found it in Old Japan. Here was a strange land indeed, where women blackened their teeth, men wore tattoos in lieu of clothing, and the whole family bathed together “with as much freedom as a flock of ducks”. Visitors came in thousands and eagerly put pen...
Samurai Castles
History / Architecture / Visitors' Guides
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Samurai Castles features hundreds of stunning color photographs and little-known details about the most important and well-preserved Samurai castles in Japan, including their history, design and military features.
Japan's ancient castles provide profound insights into the country's compelling...
Sex and the Japanese
The Sensual Side of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Sex and the Japanese provides a broad look at the changing concepts of sexuality in Japanese culture.
From the days of concubines and geishas to the present, sex and sexuality in Japan have been more openly discussed and available than in the West-due for the most part to Shinto, the native...
100 Japanese Gardens
The Best Gardens to Visit in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
100 Japanese Gardens is an ambitious attempt to profile the finest gardens in Japan, while also highlighting lesser known, but equally accomplished landscapes in less-visited parts of the country.
A celebration of Japanese landscape design, this book features gardens from Kyoto and Tokyo, as...
by Eiji Uehiro
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
A scathing critique of the global consumer culture that's bound to cause controversy among Western readers, Practical Ethics for Our Time argues that Japan's future success as a nation depends upon the ability of its citizens to uphold traditional family values and to fashion new, environmentally...
Tokyo Eating Tour (Volume 2)
The Backpacker’s Guide to Reasonable Standing Bars in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
September 19, 2017 (Edition 2.0)
* Old information was updated.
* A recommended bar was added.
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This guidebook introduces international tourists to Japan’s unknown standing bars / food shops. An unforgettable eating experience can be the highlight of any trip. Although...
Oze National Park
The Backpacker’s Guide for a 2-day 1-night Trek from Tokyo to See a Marsh, a Field of Flowers, a Lake, a Waterfall and a Mountain
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
Edition 2 (Updated April 2017)
This photo guidebook introduces international tourists to Oze National Park 尾瀬国立公園 in Japan. Oze 尾瀬 is a popular and excellent scenic hiking place. It is located in Japan on the border of Gunma 群馬, Fukushima 福島 and Niigata 新潟 Prefectures.
Although...
Grassroots Fascism
The War Experience of the Japanese People
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Grassroots Fascism profiles the Asia Pacific War (1937–1945)—the most important though least understood experience of Japan's modern history—through the lens of ordinary Japanese life. Moving deftly from the struggles of the home front to the occupied territories to the ravages of the front...
War and Conscience in Japan
Nambara Shigeru and the Asia-Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
One of Japan's most important intellectuals, Nambara Shigeru defended Tokyo Imperial University against its rightist critics and opposed Japan's war. His poetic diary (1936–1945), published only after the war, documents his profound disaffection. In 1945 Nambara became president of Tokyo University...
The Japanese and the War
Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Memories of World War II exert a powerful influence over Japan's culture and society. In The Japanese and the War, Michael Lucken details how World War II manifested in the literature, art, film, funerary practices, and education reform of the time. Concentrating on the years immediately before and...
Occupying Power
Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
The year was 1945. Hundreds of thousands of Allied troops poured into war-torn Japan and spread throughout the country. The effect of this influx on the local population did not lessen in the years following the war's end. In fact, the presence of foreign servicemen also heightened the visibility...