Japan category: 1648 books
by Janice P. Nimura
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
"Nimura paints history in cinematic strokes and brings a forgotten story to vivid, unforgettable life." —Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha
In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture...
Race War!
White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Japan’s lightning march across Asia during World War II was swift and brutal. Nation after nation fell to Japanese soldiers. How were the Japanese able to justify their occupation of so many Asian nations? And how did they find supporters in countries they subdued and exploited? Race War! delves...
The Invitation-Only Zone
The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A bizarre, little-known tale about the most secretive culture on earth
For decades, North Korea denied any part in the disappearance of dozens of Japanese citizens from Japan’s coastal towns and cities in the late 1970s. But in 2002, with his country on the brink of collapse, Kim Jong-il...
by David H James
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This volume is a history of the Japanese drive for the conquest of Greater East Asia. It includes an account of the Malayan campaign and the Fall of Singapore, followed by an outline of the dominant features of the campaign in S E Asia and the Pacific and ending with the attack on Japan and the unconditional...
Autumn Light
Season of Fire and Farewells
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
From one of our most astute observers of human nature, a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality, and grief.
For years, Pico Iyer has split his time between California and Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko,...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
It is being said that if you wish to understand something about a particular place or culture then it is important to know every single detail about the same and that is what history helps people out in. Now, Japan is also been that major part of history having so many of those different occurrences which made it to become what it is today.
by Dr Stephen Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Towards the end of the 16th century three outstanding commanders brought Japan's century of civil wars to an end, but it was Tokugawa Leyasu who was to ensure a lasting peace. In terms of his strategic and political achievements Leyasu ranks as Japan's greatest samurai commander. Leyasu possessed...
Mashi
The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In the spring of 1964, the Nankai Hawks of Japan’s Pacific League sent nineteen-year-old Masanori Murakami to the Class A Fresno Giants to improve his skills. To nearly everyone’s surprise, Murakami, known as Mashi, dominated the American hitters. With the San Francisco Giants caught in a close...
The Samurai Series
The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure - The Way of the Samurai & Bushido - The Soul of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
The Samurai Series brings together three of the most important books dealing with the Samurai path and philosophy into one deluxe, illustrated edition.
The Book of Five Rings was written by Miyamoto Musashi, a Samurai of legendary renown, about 1645. It is a masterpiece of simple exposition...
Occupation Without Troops
Wall Street's Half-Century Domination of Japanese Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
When American Occupation troops withdrew from Japan did they leave behind a truly independent country? Or did they leave in place a behindthescenes network that determined much of the course of Japanese politics for decades to come?
Painstakingly researched, by authors who have between...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This Handbook provides a cutting-edge and comprehensive survey of significant...
by Robert S. Ozaki
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
In eleven informal essays, The Japanese: a Cultural Portrait explores the character of Japan and its people.
Once famous for its "quaint charm", Japan is now strikingly western in appearance. Its rapid ascension to world prominence, many Westerners forget that Japanese habits, fears,...
by G C Allen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The author, who was for several years a lecturer in a Japanese Government College, has tried to interpret the civilization and national character of Japan in the light of his experience and of his studies in that country. He describes the novel problems and phenomena which have been created by the...
by Yuki Allyson Honjo
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This is the first in-depth study of the early trial-and-error experiences of contracting between Japanese and western merchants trading in the Japanese Treaty Ports in the eighteen year period immediately following the opening of the ports in 1859. Fundamental to the equation were the inevitable east-west...