Japan category: 1648 books
Post-Fascist Japan
Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
In late 1945 local Japanese turned their energies toward creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better skills to combat repression at home and coercion abroad. They rapidly transformed their political culture-policies, institutions, and public opinion-to create a more...
Russia and Its Northeast Asian Neighbors
China, Japan, and Korea, 1858–1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
As a result of the Aigun (1858) and Beijing Treaties (1860) Russia had become a participant in international relations of Northeast Asia, but historiography has underestimated the presence of Russia and the USSR in this region. This collection elucidates how Russia's expansion affected early Meiji...
The Politics of Dialogic Imagination
Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
In The Politics of Dialogic Imagination, Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-day Tokyo)—including fashion, leisure activities,...
Mitford's Japan
Memories and Recollections, 1866-1906
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
As the preface to this new edition points out, Mitford (Algernon Bertram, the first Lord Redesdale) was a gifted writer whose descriptions of Japan, during the critical time of transition from a feudal to a modern state in the late nineteenth century, are a testimony to his narrative skills, accuracy...
by Nick Hall
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Mt Fuji, Japan’s highest and most sacred mountain. Along with cherry blossoms, the bullet train and Hello Kitty, it’s one of the country’s most recognisable icons.Yet while a great many tourists see Mt Fuji from a train window as they speed between Tokyo and Kyoto, it’s only when you’ve...
Hidden Atrocities
Japanese Germ Warfare and American Obstruction of Justice at the Tokyo Trial
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
In the aftermath of World War II, the Allied intent to bring Axis crimes to light led to both the Nuremberg trials and their counterpart in Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. Yet the Tokyo Trial failed to prosecute imperial Japanese leaders for the worst of war crimes: inhumane...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Japan is rightly regarded as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, yet the development and deployment of Internet technology in Japan has taken a different trajectory compared with Western nations. This is the first book to look at the specific dynamics of Japanese Internet...
by Harold S. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
This is an account of life in the foreign communities and former Foreign Settlements or Concessions in Japan that flourished after Japan was opened to foreign trade in 1859. It tells of the imposters, the eccentrics, and the scandals, no less than the achievements of the scholars, the merchants, and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This important 2018 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
China's behavior regarding the Senkaku Islands has evolved from civilian fishing vessels entering territorial waters around the Islands to military vessels showing force in the...
by Pilkyu Kim
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
The period following World War II has witnessed numerous international territorial disputes, particularly in Asia and Africa. Even as we enter the twenty-first century, a large number of these territorial disputes over sovereignty remain unresolved and continue to pose significant diplomatic barriers...
by Hamish Beaton
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
An intimate account of a college graduate's three years teaching English in Japan, this book follows a young man's experience diving headfirst into a new culture and way of life. From an elderly couple who take him on nerve-wracking expeditions to the junior high school students he must teach despite...
Japan's Holy War
The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
Japan’s Holy War reveals how a radical religious ideology drove the Japanese to imperial expansion and global war. Bringing to light a wealth of new information, Walter A. Skya demonstrates that whatever other motives the Japanese had for waging war in Asia and the Pacific, for many the war was...
Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland
Japanese Brazilian Return Migration in Transnational Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2003
Since the late 1980s, Brazilians of Japanese descent have been "return" migrating to Japan as unskilled foreign workers. With an immigrant population currently estimated at roughly 280,000, Japanese Brazilians are now the second largest group of foreigners in Japan. Although they are of...
by R. Van Bergen
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Story of Japan is an interesting short history of Japan, written in the late 19th century.