Japan category: 1648 books
Inspiring Tokyo Ramen
The Backpacker’s Guide to Ramen Restaurants in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
April 19, 2017 (Edition 2)
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* Added 2 ramen shops
This guidebook introduces seven highly recommended ramen shops in Tokyo, Japan. All are popular and offer extremely high quality ramen. The price of a bowl of ramen ranges from 650 yen to a little over 1000 yen. Adding toppings...
Facing the Rising Sun
African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The surprising alliance between Japan and pro-Tokyo African Americans during World War II
In November 1942 in East St. Louis, Illinois a group of African Americans engaged in military drills were eagerly awaiting a Japanese invasion of the U.S.— an invasion that they planned to join. Since...
by Unattributed
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
The impressions of an American in Japan during the years following the opening of the island nation to American Trade. This short piece details the visit to Nagasaki and to the Governor.
The Only Woman in the Room
A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese Constitution. The Only Woman in the Room chronicles how a daughter of Russian Jews became the youngest woman to aid in the rushed, secret drafting of a constitution; how she almost single-handedly ensured that...
The First Modern Japanese
The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Many books in Japanese have been devoted to the poet and critic Ishikawa Takuboku (1886–1912). Although he died at the age of twenty-six and wrote many of his best-known poems in the space of a few years, his name is familiar to every literate Japanese. Takuboku's early death added to the sad romance...
by George H. Kerr, Mitsugu Sakihara
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
"The first full–length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western language…a standard work."—Pacific Affairs
Okinawa: The History of an Island People is the definitive book available in English on the history of Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands, and an influential...
Unit 731
Testimony
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in and around Japan during WWII.
Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of the continent. Far from front lines and...
A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600
The Writings of Kang Hang
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Kang Hang was a Korean scholar-official taken prisoner in 1597 by an invading Japanese army during the Imjin War of 1592–1598. While in captivity in Japan, Kang recorded his thoughts on human civilization, war, and the enemy's culture and society, acting in effect as a spy for his king. Arranged...
by Avery Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2012
This academic research explores the ideology of religious studies with respect to early 20th century studies of Japan. Since 1945, “State Shintō” has been defined in academic literature as a state religion. In fact, the Japanese government took concrete steps to separatetheir patriotic ceremonies from religion; it was Christian missionaries who encouraged the opposite view.
Bringing Whales Ashore
Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Today, Japan defends its controversial whaling expeditions by invoking tradition�but what was the historical reality? In examining the techniques and impacts of whaling during the Tokugawa period (1603�1868), Jakobina Arch shows that the organized, shore-based whaling that first developed during...
The Highest Mountain in Tokyo Mt. Kumotori
The Backpacker’s Guide for a 2-day 1-night Trek to See Mt. Fuji and Japanese Forest
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
May 15, 2017 (Edition 2.0)
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This is a guidebook for a two-day, one-night trek to see the forest around Mt. Kumotori (雲取山). If you climb to the top of Mt. Kumotori in Tokyo,...
War without Mercy
Race and Power in the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST
Now in paperback, War Without Mercy has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.” In this monumental...
by Noriko Kawamura
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
This reexamination of the controversial role Emperor Hirohito played during the Pacific War gives particular attention to the question: If the emperor could not stop Japan from going to war with the Allied Powers in 1941, why was he able to play a crucial role in ending the war in 1945? Drawing on...
Pitfall or Panacea
The Irony of U.S. Power in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
The main purpose of this book is to shed light on the limitations of the American hegemony in occupied Japan. Previous studies share the assumption that the United States was in a near-monopoly position to shape the postwar development in Japan as well as in the Asia-Pacific region. The book goes on to modify the prevailing view that American hegem