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Thomas Glover arrived in Nagasaki in 1859, just as Japan was opening to the West. Within a few years he had played a crucial part in the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate, providing the rebels with war-winning, Scottish-designed warships, and modern arms. Bankruptcy by the age of thirty was barely...

Critics typically regard Abe Kobo (1924-93) as writing against realism, due to his avant-garde aesthetics that challenged the Naturalist realism dominating the literary mainstream and the Socialist realism of the orthodox Left in postwar Japan. He considered his work thoroughly realist, however, and...

In this largely autobiographical account of the author's two-year proselyting mission to Japan during the late 1970s, a Mormon missionary confronts an overzealous religious bureaucracy and his own growing doubts as the work of preaching the gospel is turned into a cynical game of numbers and spiritual one-upmanship.

In Cold War Ruins Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have generated what she calls a "transborder redress culture." A product of failed post-World War II transitional justice that left...

This book is written for you as parents living in Japan, it contains useful, everyday phrases that you might need to use with teachers, doctors, other parents, and other children. Especially if you have babies or small children, the book contains over 500 phrases for everyday conversation in shops, at the doctor's, or making friends with other parents. 

When Japan invaded China in 1937, Chinese journalists greeted the news with euphoria, convinced their countrymen, led by Chiang Kai-shek, would triumph. Parks Coble shows that correspondents underplayed China’s defeats for fear of undercutting morale and then saw their writings disappear and themselves denounced after the Communists came to power.

« Les chapitres qui forment le présent volume sont extraits de Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan l’une des premières oeuvres de Lafcadio Hearn.  Dans cette suite d’esquisses, l’auteur s’est efforcé, de nous révéler l’âme japonaise en ce qu’elle a de plus spécifique.  Aussi s’est-il...

Science, technology, and medicine all contributed to the emerging modern Japanese empire and conditioned key elements of post-war development. As the only emerging non-Western country that was a colonial power in its own right, Japan utilized these fields not only to define itself as racially different...

"Viaggiare in Giappone" è una guida completa e dettagliata del meraviglioso Giappone. Il lettore potrà immergersi nella spiritualità e nell'armonia di questo Paese, ed accedere a preziose informazioni tecniche, consigli ed impressioni personali. Ogni paragrafo è correlato di fotografie...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).  *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.  *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Letters of Travel, 1892-1913, originally published in 1920, is a collection of articles on Japan, the United States, Canada and Egypt.

特輯1：最愛北陸～搭乘北陸新幹線 輕鬆悠遊 北陸泛指位於日本中部，面日本海的石川、福井、富山三縣，依山傍海坐擁獨特的優美大自然，孕育出鮮美的山珍海味，許多傲視日本的傳統工藝也都出自於此，沒有大都市的喧囂熙攘，卻擁有最洗練精緻的風格設計。被喻為「小京都」的金澤、聞名國際的「手工眼鏡聖地」福井鯖江、日本代表性的合掌建築富山五箇山等，美食、絕景、文化體驗，皆能一次盡享。隨著北陸新幹線的開通，從東京就能輕鬆前往，一路暢遊體驗全新繽紛的北陸之旅！ 特輯2：東京出發1日來回！親山綠水小旅行 在密集的血拚、觀光行程之後，是不是偶爾也會想要喘口氣，走進大自然好好放鬆一下呢？規劃東京旅程時，不如安排一天到山裡呼吸新鮮空氣，或者去海邊欣賞無際碧水，讓內心煩悶一掃而空，靜心感受不一樣的日本遊程。 ◎卡滋哈琳努的發現！日本 ◎Travel...

北九州慢遊◎特輯1：福岡出發！【北九州慢遊】福岡縣／佐賀縣／長崎縣Course 01 ︱ 福岡／新潮與懷舊的小倉．門司散步Course 02 ︱ 福岡／山線x 海線北九州市自然之旅Course 03 ︱ 福岡／茶之聖地！八女日本茶新發現Course 04 ︱ 福岡／不為人知的太宰府私房散步Course...

Pachinko, a game played by over 30 million Japanese, is synonymous with glaring lights, mind-rattling noise and smoke-choked parlors. To the uninitiated, the game's phenomenal popularity is nothing less than an enigma. The unofficial truth is that pachinko is one of Japan's biggest forms of gambling....

觀光必去推薦！大阪28區散步，購物美食一手掌握精選大阪特色規劃28處區域旅遊行程，超過250多個景點、餐廳以及話題熱門名所，詳附區域地圖，按圖索驥一目了然。