Japan category: 1648 books
Between Two Empires
Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2005
The incarceration of Japanese Americans has been discredited as a major blemish in American democratic tradition. Accompanying this view is the assumption that the ethnic group help unqualified allegiance to the United States. Between Two Empires probes the complexities of prewar Japanese America...
by Ernest Manjiro
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
March, 2016. Five years after the giant tsunami that devastated the coast of Tohoku and triggered the worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl. Three visitors to Sendai, near the epicenter of the disaster, are swept up in a wave of past memories mixed with a rapidly changing future. Japan has rebooted...
Tokyo Stories
A Japanese cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Tokyo is rightfully known around the world as one of the most exciting places to eat on the planet. From subterranean department store food halls to luxurious top-floor hotel restaurants, and all the noodle shops, sushi bars, and yakitori shacks in between, there may be no other city so thoroughly...
Beachheads
War, Peace, and Tourism in Postwar Okinawa
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
This original and fresh book explores Okinawa’s makeover as a tourist mecca in the long historical shadow and among the physical ruins of the Pacific War’s most devastating land battle. Gerald Figal considers how a place burdened by a history of semicolonialism, memories of war and occupation,...
Multidisciplinary Studies of the Environment and Civilization
Japanese Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Multidisciplinary Studies on the Environment and Civilization draws on research from a diverse range of fields across the humanities, social and natural sciences to discover what is needed to develop an affluent, sustainable and resilient world for the twenty-first century and beyond.
The contributions...
Japanese Contract and Anti-Trust Law
A Sociological and Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Little has been written on Japanese contract law and anti-trust law in Western languages. This book describes the role of this law in protecting the distributor against unilateral terminations of distribution agreements. There have been significant pressures both to lower prices and restructure distribution...
JapanWalker Vol.22 5月號
帶著交通票券，深入旅遊西日本！
Language: Chinese
Release Date: April 30, 2017
帶著交通票券，深入旅遊西日本！
特輯1：西日本．深度旅
外國旅客限定-優惠交通票券
自助旅行絕對少不了大眾交通工具，日本四通八達的交通網雖然便利，卻也常因太過複雜讓人傷透腦筋。
其實搭配外國旅客限定的優惠交通票券，了解用法，輕鬆搭乘，馬上就能前往平常到不了的驚喜景點！
利用多樣的交通票券，暢遊你還不知道的西日本，機場出發，展開一趟深度西日本之旅。
特輯2：東京．找咖啡
漫步東京，在清澄白河、奧澀谷、中目黑等咖啡聖地，用一杯手沖咖啡開啟美好的一天。
途經轉角咖啡店，外帶一杯咖啡繼續往前。
穿梭原宿和秋葉原等鬧區，在主題咖啡廳體驗新奇服務。
夜幕低垂，夜貓子在深夜咖啡廳，享受一個人的獨處片刻。
從白天到深夜，一起尋找東京咖啡的美好滋味吧！
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by Lafcadio Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Out of the East; Reveries and Studies in New Japan written by an international writer Lafcadio Hearn. This book is one of many works by him. It has already Published in 1895. Now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive...
The Sublime Perversion of Capital
Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
In The Sublime Perversion of Capital Gavin Walker examines the Japanese debate about capitalism between the 1920s and 1950s, using it as a "prehistory" to consider current discussions of uneven development and contemporary topics in Marxist theory and historiography. Walker locates the debate's...
Beyond Nation
Time, Writing, and Community in the Work of Abe Kōbō
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
In the work of writer Abe Kōbō (1924–1993), characters are alienated both from themselves and from one another. Through close readings of Abe's work, Richard Calichman reveals how time and writing have the ability to unground identity. Over time, attempts to create unity of self cause alienation,...
Japanese Legends and Folklore
Samurai Tales, Ghost Stories, Legends, Fairy Tales, Myths and Historical Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Japanese Legends and Folklore invites English speakers into the intriguing world of Japanese folktales, ghost stories and historical eyewitness accounts. With a fascinating selection of stories about Japanese culture and history, A.B. Mitford—who lived and worked in Japan as a British diplomat—presents...
by Ikuhiko Hata
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone is an exhaustive examination of the controversial issue of comfort women, who provided sexual services to Japanese soldiers before and during World War II. This book provides extensive documents and narratives by witnesses to shed light on the reality of these...
Starcrossed
A Biography of Madame Butterfly
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly has enjoyed tremendous popularity in Europe and America since its debut in 1904. It has also inspired a global-level debate about whether the tragic heroine of the opera, Cho-Cho-san, was based on a real-life model.
Starcrossed looks at this controversy...
Diva Nation
Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Diva Nation explores the constructed nature of female iconicity in Japan. From ancient goddesses and queens to modern singers and writers, this edited volume critically reconsiders the female icon, tracing how she has been offered up for emulation, debate or censure. The research in this book culminates...