Japan category: 1648 books
Tokyo
Memory, Imagination, and the City
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City is a collection of eight essays that explore Tokyo urban space from the perspective of memory in works of the imagination—novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and films. Written by scholars of Japanese studies based in England, Germany, Japan, and the United...
The Currents of War
A New History of American-Japanese Relations, 1899-1941
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
From 1899 until the American entry into World War II, U.S. presidents sought to preserve China's territorial integrity in order to guarantee American businesses access to Chinese markets -- a policy famously known as the "open door." Before the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Americans saw Japan...
Bonds of the Dead
Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism’s social and economic base has long been in mortuary services—a base now threatened by public debate over the status,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
Incorporating Japanese language materials and field-based research, this compelling collection of essays takes a comparative look at the changing notions of gender and sexual diversity in Japan, considering both heterosexual and non-heterosexual histories, lifestyles and identities.
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The Kurillian Knot
A History of Japanese-Russian Border Negotiations
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
This book provides an answer to the mystery of why no peace treaty has yet been signed between Japan and Russia after more than sixty years since the end of World War Two. The author, a leading authority on Japanese-Russian diplomatic history, was trained at the Russian Institute of Columbia University....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Warfare in Japan from the fourth to the nineteenth century has caused much controversy among Western military and political historians. This volume assembles key articles written by specialists in the field on military organization, the social context of war, battle action, weapons and martial arts....
Japanese-German Relations, 1895-1945
War, Diplomacy and Public Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Written by a team of Japanese and German scholars, this book presents an interpretation of Japanese/German history and international diplomacy. It provides a greater understanding of key aspects of the countries' bilateral relations from the end of the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 to the parallel defeat...
by Odagiri Hideo, Hirano Ken, Sasaki Kiichi
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
In the wake of its defeat in World War II, as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation, literature and literary criticism emerged as highly contested sites. Today, this remarkable period holds rich potential for opening new dialogue...
by John Whittier Treat
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s against the backdrop of a rapidly coalescing modern nation to the present. John Whittier Treat takes up both canonical and forgotten works, the non-literary as well as the literary, and...
by Sharon Chalmers
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Lesbian Sexuality has remained largely ignored in Japan despite increasing exposure of disadvantaged minority groups, including gay men. This book is the first comprehensive academic exploration of contemporary lesbian sexuality in Japanese society. The author employs an interdisciplinary approach...
Right Thoughts at the Last Moment
Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Buddhists across Asia have often aspired to die with a clear and focused mind, as the historical Buddha himself is said to have done. This book explores how the ideal of dying with right mindfulness was appropriated, disseminated, and transformed in premodern Japan, focusing on the late tenth through...
Samurai vs Ashigaru
Japan 1543–75
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2019
During the 16th century, Japan underwent a military revolution, characterized by the deployment of large armies, the introduction of firearms and an eventual shift towards fighting on foot. This study encapsulates these great changes through an exploration of the experience on the ground at three...
The Pacific War and Contingent Victory
Why Japanese Defeat Was Not Inevitable
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
About the Allies' victory in the Pacific in WWII, it goes almost without question that Japan's defeat was inevitable in the face of overwhelming American military might and economic power. But the outcome, Michael W. Myers contends, was actually anything but inevitable. This book is Myers's thorough...
by Senator Wong
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
This book is written for all who are interested to know the likely outcomes to the island disputes that are occurring in the Asia-Pacific region revolving around countries such as China, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia & Brunei and with the involvement of powers such as the United States, India...