Japan category: 1648 books
Yoshida Shigeru
Last Meiji Man
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2007
The most complete autobiography of Yoshida Shigeru available in English, this expanded translation of his memoirs traces the remarkable life and times of one of Japan's most powerful and influential figures. Yoshida (1878–1967), who served in China and Europe as a career diplomat, closely linked...
by Charlotte Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
This compact travel guide and pictorial is the #1 selling travel book in Japan. Packed with cultural and historical information along with charming photographs take a trip to Japan to always remember.
Japan is a country shrouded in mystery, even now in the 21st century. The myriad facets that,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
This excellent 2018 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Pre-World War II Japan, throughout the first half of the twentieth century, was a nation with a strong military force, growing economy, and unique ethnic identity. Contemporary...
Reasons for the Success and Failure of Japan’s Mediation for Intra-State Conflicts in Aid Recipient Countries as Their Top ODA Donor
Case Studies of Cambodia (1997-1998) and Sri Lanka (2002-2009)
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Why was Japan able to successfully mediate an intra-State conflict only in Cambodia from 1997 to 1998 and not in Sri Lanka from 2002 to 2009 as their top ODA donor that had been expected to have much influence on these aid recipient countries and thus was highly motivated to mediate efficiently by using its aid?...
Japan's China Policy
A Relational Power Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2005
Japan's China Policy understands Japan's foreign policy in terms of power - one of the most central concepts of political analysis. It contributes a fresh understanding to the subject by developing relational power as an analytical framework and by applying it to significant issues in Japan's China...
by Herbert P Bix
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial...
Japan 1941
Countdown to Infamy
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific.
When Japan launched hostilities against the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood...
by John Nathan
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
John Nathan arrived in Tokyo in 1961 fresh out of Harvard College, bringing with him no practical experience, no more than two connections, no prospects, and little else to recommend him but stoic, unflappable pluck. Japan at that time was still in the shadow of the Occupation, and only a handful...
A History of Popular Culture in Japan
From the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in the 17th century to the present day, using...
Emperor of Japan
Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in the main, cut off from the outside world, staunchly antiforeign, and committed to the traditions of...
Japan Travel Guide & Map Tuttle Travel Pack
Your Guide to Japan's Best Sights for Every Budget
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
The only resource you need for travel to Japan!
This award-winning guide puts the whole country in the palm of your hand. With a map and tips on all the best sights, travelers can be sure they are seeing the best of Japan without wasting any time!
Explore energetic, ever-changing Tokyo—or...
by Insight Guides
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Japan is a compelling and unique country, set across an archipelago of islands as notable for their distinctive cities as their immensely diverse landscapes. Be inspired to visit by the brand new Insight Pocket Guide Japan, a concise, full-colour guide to this captivating country that combines lively...
Japan's International Relations
Politics, Economics and Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The latest edition of this comprehensive and user-friendly textbook provides a single volume resource for all those studying Japan's international relations. It offers a clear and concise introduction to the most important aspects of Japan's role in the globalized economy of the twenty-first century....
Imperial Eclipse
Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
The "Pacific War" narrative of Japan’s defeat that was established after 1945 started with the attack on Pearl Harbor, detailed the U.S. island-hopping campaigns across the Western Pacific, and culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan’s capitulation, and its recasting...