Japan category: 1648 books
by Steven J. Zaloga
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
In 1945, with her fleet destroyed and her armies beaten, the only thing that stood between Japan and an Allied invasion was the numerous coastal defence positions that surrounded the islands. This is the first book to take a detailed look at the Japanese home island fortifications that were constructed...
Operation Storm
Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The riveting true story of Japan's top secret plan to change the course of World War II using a squadron of mammoth submarines a generation ahead of their time
In 1941, the architects of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor planned a bold follow-up: a potentially devastating air raid—this time against New...
Shogun
The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
This book tells the fascinating history of the life of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu — Japan's most famous Shogun.
Since its initial appearance, A.L.Sadler's imposing biography of the Japanese Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu has been recognized as an outstanding contribution to the knowledge of Japanese...
The Last Samurai
The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori's life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai, to national leadership, to his death as a rebel leader, has captivated generations of Japanese readers and now Americans as well - his life is the inspiration for a major Hollywood film, The Last Samurai, starring...
Bushido
The Soul of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
A century ago, when Japan was transforming itself from an isolated feudal society into a modern nation, a Japanese educator queried about the ethos of his people composed this seminal work, which with his numerous other writings in English made him the best, known Japanese writer in the West during...
Samurai Tales
Courage, Fidelity and Revenge in the Final Years of the Shogun
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Samurai Tales is about the legendary men from the samurai class who fought for the helm of power in 19th century Japan. These are stories of courage, honor, fidelity, disgrace, fate, and destiny set in the bloody time of political change and social upheaval in the final years of the Shogun.
The...
The Nihongi
Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
The Nihon Shoki, translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second oldest book of classical Japanese history. The book is also called the Nihongi (The Japanese Chronicles). It is more elaborate and detailed than the Kojiki, the oldest book, and has proven to be an important tool for historians...
An Imperial Concubine's Tale
Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Japan in the early seventeenth century was a wild place. Serial killers stalked the streets of Kyoto at night, while noblemen and women mingled freely at the imperial palace, drinking saké and watching kabuki dancing in the presence of the emperor's principal consort. Among these noblewomen was an...
Yoshiwara
Geishas, Courtesans, and the Pleasure Quarters of Old Tokyo
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
"Lust will not keep…Something must be done about it."—inscription at the entrance to Yoshiwara
For over a hundred years the Western world has heard whispers of the pleasure city, Yoshiwara, set behind its walls in the city of Edo itself, which is today called Tokyo. Here was an...
East Asia Beyond the History Wars
Confronting the Ghosts of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
East Asia is now the world’s economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreas. Unhappy legacies of Japan’s military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies,...
A Pilgrimage in Japan
The 33 Temples of Kannon
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, is the one who 'hears the cries of the world and vows to 'assist anyone in distress.' As the author embarks on the pilgrimage route that extends from the Japan Sea to the Pacific Ocean, through the ancient city of Kyoto and the modern city of Osaka, and to the...
National History and the World of Nations
Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Focusing on Japan, France, and the United States, Christopher L. Hill reveals how the writing of national history in the late nineteenth century made the reshaping of the world by capitalism and the nation-state seem natural and inevitable. The three countries, occupying widely different positions...
by Hisho Saito
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This volume presents the Japanese version of the history of Japan from its origins, through the subjection of Korea, the introduction of Chinese culture, rebellion in Korea, Buddhism, Taika reforms, Ainu insurrection, the founding of Kyoto as the capital, the power of Fujiwara, the founding of the...
Daily Life in Japan
At The Time of the Samurai, 1185-1603
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
From the tenth century onwards the emperors of Japan gradually lost power. The local lords or clan chiefs waged ceaseless war against each other, while the court, wholly steeped in Chinese culture, seemed to take no further interest in the affairs of the nation. In 1191 the Minamoto clan mastered...