Japan category: 1648 books
Hidden in Plain Sight
Esoteric Power Training within Japanese Martial Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Ellis Amdur's writing on martial arts has been groundbreaking. In Dueling with O-sensei, he challenged practitioners that the moral dimension of martial arts is expressed in acts of integrity, not spiritual platitudes and the deification of fantasized warrior-sages. In Old School, he applied both...
The Cultural Career of Coolness
Discourses and Practices of Affect Control in European Antiquity, the United States, and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Cool is a word of American English that has been integrated into the vocabulary of numerous languages around the globe. Today it is a term most often used in advertising trendy commodities, or, more generally, in promoting urban lifestyles in our postmodern age. But what is the history of the term...
by Andrew Tharp, Anthony DiCristofano, Richard Babin
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
The famed samurai sword (nihonto) represents the pinnacle of bladed weaponry in the Japanese warrior’s arsenal. This book addresses the sword’s intrinsic historic, monetary, military, and artistic values.The seven chapters for this particular anthology were selected from materials published in...
by Attila Pivony-Sensei Shidoin 5th Dan Aikido Aikikai
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
My trips around the world are very often connected with Aikido. And Japan always was and is the special country for me.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
Some sixty years after the Far Eastern War ended, this innovative new collection brings together five distinguished UK-based scholars and five from Japan to reappraise their respective country's leadership in the Malaya and Burma campaigns. This leadership is analyzed on various levels, ranging from the grand strategic to operational.The Japanese c
by Theresa M. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
A re-translation of the master work on strategy by the master ronin and kensei (sword saint) Miyamoto Musashi; containing principles which can be applied to the battlefield, gaming, and the boardroom. This book also includes a biography of Musashi and essays on the history and the martial arts traditions...
Samurai
Swords, Shoguns and Seppuku
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
A complete, accessible account of the Japanese samurai—from warlords and women warriors to famous battles and ritual suicidesThe true nature of the samurai warrior is an elusive and endlessly fascinating enigma for those in the west. From their inauspicious beginnings as barbarian-subduing soldiers,...
Long Night’s Journey into Day
Prisoners of War in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Sickness, starvation, brutality, and forced labour plagued the existence of tens of thousands of Allied POWs in World War II. More than a quarter of these POWs died in captivity.
Long Night’s Journey into Day centres on the lives of Canadian, British, Indian, and Hong Kong POWs captured at...
Death in Life
Survivors of Hiroshima
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In Japan, "hibakusha" means "the people affected by the explosion--specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. In this classic study, winner of the 1969 National Book Award in Science, Lifton studies the psychological effects of the bomb on 90,000 survivors....
Last Post over the River Kwai
The 2nd East Surreys in the Far East 1938–1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Last Post Over the River Kwai is the carefully researched account of the experiences of the officers and men of 2nd Battalion The East Surreys during the Second World War.Stationed in Shanghai in the early 1940s, the Battalion was deployed to Malaya and fought gallantly to slow the Japanese advance....
Ronin
Skirmish Wargames in the Age of the Samurai
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Set in an age of feuding samurai, wandering swordsmen and fearless warrior monks, Ronin is a skirmish wargame that captures the flavour and excitement of such Akira Kurosawa films as Seven Samurai and Yojimbo. Whether they prefer the loyal samurai retainers of a feudal lord or a horde of desperate...
Lust, Commerce, and Corruption
An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent economic and social stresses, the country seemed to be approaching a new period of growth. The idea that the shogunate would not last forever was far from anyone's mind.
Yet,...
Lust, Commerce, and Corruption
An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai, Abridged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent economic and social stresses, the country seemed headed for a new period of growth. The idea that the shogunate would not last forever was far from anyone's mind.
Yet,...
Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House)
Tales of the Tokugawa II
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
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 second edition of the collection.
Bakemono Yashiki is a Japanese horror adventure about a girl who, along with her friend and the ghost...