Japan category: 1648 books

**“A searing tribute . . . [to] America in its bleakest hour” (Sen. John McCain, New York Times–bestselling author of Faith of My Fathers). On December 13, 1944, POW Estel Myers was herded aboard the Japanese prison ship, the Oryoku Maru, with more than sixteen hundred other American...

The tea cermony—known as cha-no-yu, or literally "hot water for tea"—has touched nearly every aspect of Japanese life. First published in 1933 as Cha-No-Yu, or The Japanese Tea Ceremony, this classic remains the gold standard for books on the five-centuries-old tea ceremony, which...

This Samurai history, filled with dozens of woodblock prints and photographs, is an authoritative text on Japan's most fearsome warriors. Through fascinating stories and full-color historical images that show the samurai in mesmerizing detail, military historian Stephen Turnbull provides an...

This expert guide to Japanese architecture is of enormous historical importance to the understanding of Japanese design and culture. Pioneering Japanologist A. L. Sadler's invaluable study of Japanese architecture first appeared in 1941. Considered a classic in its field, unequaled in clarity...

When The Nightless City was first published in 1899, it was deemed taboo in polite circles. It is now considered a valuable historical document—albeit still provocative—as a pioneering sociological study of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku: Tokyo's infamous red-light district where the giving of pleasure...

Tales of the Tokugawa is a collection of Japanese horror stories collected by James S. de Benneville during the years he spent living in Japan, this is the first edition of the collection. Yotsuya Kwaidan , the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon,is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge....

Unaware that the M 9.0 megaquake of March 11, 2011 was just the beginning of it all Yogan Baum narrowly escapes the ensuing tsunami. Wandering around his little village in search of his wife he slowly realizes the really, really bad news is still to come. Early next morning the north-flying...

In Search of Sugihara: The Elusive Japanese Diplomat Who Risked His Life to Rescue 10,000 Jews from the Holocaust by Hillel Levine (130,000 words, 19 illustrations) Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Kovno, Lithuania, honored in 1984 by Yad Vashem as a “Righteous Among the Nations,”...

  Most remote islands of the imagination conjure up paradise. Japan is an archipelago of puzzlement, lost to the rest of the world for two and a half centuries.  From the sands that forged their swords and serenity, they traveled a timeline of temples and shrines and feudal fortresses and...

Ginza Go, Papa-san grew out of a witty essay in the Saturday Evening Post. Through his wit, humor, and love of people, Allan R. Bosworth has captured a quality of profound understanding seldom found in the more learned and academic works on the Japanese. A deep and abiding affection for the people...

Lady Nijo, a lady–in–waiting of the thirteenth–century Japanese Imperial Court, was a small child when the young ex–Emperor Go Fukakusa took her under his protection. She was between twelve and thirteen years old when he made her his mistress, and for more than a decade after that the lovely young...

Killing the Rising Sun conveys tales from the Pacific battleground of The second world war consisting of the questionable United States choice to establish and make use of atomic weapons. Sustained by self-confidence in their racial supremacy, the Japanese put in a fantastic effort to broaden their...

**如果你只能透過一本書 洞悉近代日本的生成原因及歷程 本書將是最佳的選擇 以清晰易懂又生動的散文風格 對政治、經濟、社會、文化與藝術、外交事務 以及日本社會其它層面的重大趨勢 進行全面性的完整分析** 本書全面敘述了從德川家康就任征夷大將軍直到當今時代的400餘年日本歷史，將政治、經濟、社會、文化等各個方面熔為一爐。美國的《圖書館學刊》評論說：「這份全覽式的研究是個了不起的成果，實際上敘述了日本從十七世紀迄今現代史的每一個層面，勝過其它同範疇的所有作品。」《出版者週刊》則稱讚道：「這本書不單是描述日本在二十世紀成為先進國家的方法，其中還為天皇的詔書、松尾芭蕉的詩歌以及勞工領袖的訴求留有空間。」 作為一部大跨度的歷史著作，《日本史》顯示出了深厚的歷史意識與理性精神。在對待歷史的態度上，不是將歷史作為可以任意揉捏的泥巴，而是將其作為史實、文化、道德以及人性的存在過程與載體，從而使作品具有厚重的歷史感。本書以時間架構縱向的軸線，配以空間的橫向流動，使厚重的歷史感和歷史情懷盡情呈現在讀者面前。在這時空交織的歷史場景中，我們可以感受到由客觀史實的詩性描寫所帶來的強烈的歷史意識。 為了更加真實、深刻地再現這段歷史，作者查閱了大量的文獻資料，從日本歷史上各個重要關頭錯綜複雜的國內環境到波譎雲詭的世界局勢，從國內各派政治力量的縱橫捭闔到體現著歷史意志的各色人等的政策權謀，甚至從不同時期的風土人情到各界人士的服飾語言和音容笑貌，都考察得有根有據，刻畫得頗為傳神。也許，《日本史》中仍有一些不盡如人意和值得商榷之處，但它所呈現出的作者態度之真誠，著述資料之真實是毋庸置疑的。 詹姆斯教授所著《日本史》的又一個魅力在於，它以一種理性啟動歷史的敘事方式復活了歷史，從而使其具有值得稱道的哲學意味和人性深度。作者在其歷史敘事的顯形式下，蘊藏著立足於人性的內在形態與精神立場，這也成為文本建構的內驅動力。縱覽全書，我們不難發現，在進行宏大歷史敘事的同時，作者始終不忘從人性的立場來表現特定歷史時空下人們的生存狀態，從而使本書具有一種深切的人文關懷。 近數十年來，歷史著述的一個新特點是寫作者越來越重視歷史中的社會和文化方面，並力圖更多地再現普通人的生活。《日本史》對這些問題也給予了特別優先的關注，在描述重大政治經濟事件及其進展之外，儘量收集有關社會文化的動向以及普通人日常生活的內容——工人、農民、工匠、家庭、士兵、婦女的日常生活得到了詳細描述。給人留下深刻印象的是，作者在重點關注主流社會和時代主題的同時，並沒有忽視「部落民」、「少數族裔」等社會邊緣群體，並沒有遮掩經濟發展和社會進步所帶來的新的矛盾，諸如階級衝突的加劇、環境污染的危害等等，再現了近代以來日本歷史發展的多維立體生活空間。 《日本史》一書還有一個吸引人的地方，就是「大事件」與「小故事」相結合的敘事手法，以及全書寫作的「茶座」風格。   ...

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