Japan category: 1648 books
by James Woudhuysen
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession
Adopting and Adapting Western Influences
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
In the years after 1868, when Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation ended, in nursing, as in every other aspect of life, the Japanese looked to the west. This book tells the story of 'Florence Nightingale-ism' in Japan, showing how Japanese nursing developed from 1868 to the present. It discusses...
Opening a Window to the West
The Foreign Concession at Kobe, Japan, 1868-1899
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
After more than two centuries of self-seclusion, Japan finally opened itself to Western traders and influences in the 1850s. However, Westerners were restricted to a handful of Foreign Concessions set adjacent to selected Japanese cities, where they could fashion a working urban space suited to their...
Tokyo to Tokyo
A Cycling Adventure Around Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In the Land of the Rising Sun, one Brit and his bicycle can get into a lot of mischief. Beginning and ending in the biggest metropolis on earth, small town farm hand, and part-time adventurer Daniel Doughty with his trusty steed tackle all 47 of Japan’s prefectures.
A tale of ups and downs...
“The Most Dangerous Moment of the War”
Japan’s Attack on the Indian Ocean, 1942
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
In early April 1942, a little-known episode of World War II took place, said by Sir Winston Churchill to be “the most dangerous moment of the war,” when the Japanese made their only major offensive westwards into the Indian Ocean. Historian Sir Arthur Bryant said, “A Japanese naval victory in...
Sōseki
Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) was the father of the modern novel in Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught between familiar modes of living and the onslaught of Western values and conventions. Yet even though generations of Japanese high school students have been expected to...
The Premise of Fidelity
Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
The Premise of Fidelity puts forward a new history of Japanese visuality through an examination of the discourses and practices surrounding the nineteenth century transposition of "the real" in the decades before photography was introduced. This intellectual history is informed by a careful...
Tokyo Style Guide
Eat sleep shop
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
One of the most exhilarating and inspiring cities in the world, Tokyo is vast, complex and ever-changing, pulsating with youthful energy. Author Jane Lawson has been travelling to Japan for more than thirty years, and has led many group and private tours to various parts of the country. In Tokyo Style...
Sake Bar in Tokyo
The Backpacker's Guide to the Unique Sake Bars and Stores
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
June 5, 2017 (Edition 2.0)
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Hopefully, you are interested in drinking sake and want to know where to buy. This guidebook introduces international tourists to recommended sake...
Refining Nature in Modern Japanese Literature
The Life and Art of Shiga Naoya
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This book examines the literature of Shiga Naoya, who is highly regarded in modern Japan for his unique style and methods of describing his personal experiences and emotions. Contributing new findings to the field of scholarship on Shiga, this study focuses in particular on Shiga’s nature-inspired...
Nagasaki
Life After Nuclear War
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
“[A] reminder of just how horrible nuclear weapons are.”—The Wall Street Journal
**“A devastating read that highlights man’s capacity to wreak destruction, but in which one also catches a glimpse of all that is best about people.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“A poignant and...
To Hell and Back
The Last Train from Hiroshima
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever.
To Hell and Back offers readers a stunning,...
Hiroshima
The World’s First Atomic Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the bombing of Hiroshima. In August 1945, the Second World War was over in Europe, but in the East the...
Japanese Capitals in Historical Perspective
Place, Power and Memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Japan's ability to develop its own brand of modernity has often been attributed in part to the sophistication of its cities. Concentrating on Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo, the contributors to this volume weave together the links between past and future, memory and vision, symbol and structure, between marginality and power, and between Japan's two great capital cities.