Japan category: 1648 books
by Herbert Strang
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Japanese were for the first time measuring their strength in the China war.
Bob Fawcett has the good fortune to do a service to Kobo San, the descendant of an ancient Samurai family and high in the Government Service. He was sent out to Japan before the outbreak of the war to test the range...
Rising Sun Victorious
Alternate Histories of the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The editor of Third Reich Victorious shares plausible alternate scenarios and outcomes of Pacific Theater battles during World War II.
In war, victory can be held hostage to seemingly insignificant incidents—chance events, opportunities seized or cast aside—that can derail the most brilliant...
People Who Eat Darkness
The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave.
Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, covered...
Learning to Bow
An American Teacher in a Japanese School
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small rural town. Beginning with a ritual outdoor bath...
Facing the Wave
A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**
**Kansas City Star Best Books of the Year (2013)**
A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to...
by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
“Read it. You will be uplifted.”—Ruth Ozeki, Zen priest, author of A Tale for the Time Being
Marie Mutsuki Mockett's family owns a Buddhist temple 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In March 2011, after the earthquake and tsunami, radiation levels prohibited the...
by Yoshiko Ueda
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Japan is devided into 8 districts and 47 prefectures.
This series is my journal traveling 47 prefectures.
This book is the outline of this series.
I introduce you one by one.
by Penny van Heerden
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
[Okinawa Travel Guide 2012] == The Complete Guide to Okinawa, Japan - fully updated for 2012 == Okinawa is a Japanese Jewel in the East China Sea. A variety of driving and walking tours allows you to custom make your Okinawan experience whether you are staying for a weekend, a week or longer. The tours...
The Secret Traditions of the Shinobi
Hattori Hanzo's Shinobi Hiden and Other Ninja Scrolls
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The shinobi, or ninja, is one of the most widely recognized figures in the world of espionage—and also one of the most misrepresented. What do we really know about the historical shinobi, his tactics, and his role in medieval Japanese society? In Secret Traditions of the Shinobi, these questions—and...
Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future
Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating the implications of nuclear weapons to the future of human civilization. Political and social forces often seemed paralyzed in thinking beyond the advent...
The Book of Tea Classic Edition
Classic Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Now available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase edition, this "object d'art" will be sure to add grace and elegance to tea shelves, coffee tables and bookshelves. A keepsake enjoyed by tea lovers for over a hundred years, The Book of Tea Classic Edition will enhance your enjoyment and understanding...
Prisoner of the Samurai
Surviving the Sinking of the USS Houston and the Death Railway
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
During World War II, Lt. Rosalie Hamric was an R.N., serving as Charge Nurse in the Psychiatric Ward of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Hospital. At the end of the war, a group of liberated prisoners of war from Southeast Asia, survivors of the sinking of the USS Houston in 1942, was sent to the ward for...
The Forgotten Highlander
An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave on the notorious “Death Railway” and building the Bridge on the River Kwai. Subsequently, he moved to work...
The Vanished
The "Evaporated People" of Japan in Stories and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Every year, nearly one hundred thousand Japanese vanish without a trace. Known as the johatsu, or the evaporated,” they are often driven by shame and hopelessness, leaving behind lost jobs, disappointed families, and mounting debts. In The Vanished, journalist Léna Mauger and photographer Stéphane...