Japan category: 1648 books
True Path of the Ninja
The Definitive Translation of the Shoninki (An Authentic Ninja Training Manual)
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
True Path of the Ninja is the first authoritative translation in English of the Shoninki—the famous 17th-century ninjutsu manual.
Authors Antony Cummins and Yoshie Minami worked closely with Dr. Nakashima Atsumi, author of the most comprehensive modern Japanese version of the Shoninki, thus...
by Miyamoto Musashi
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho) is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the samurai warrior Miyamoto Musashi circa 1645. It is considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra. There have been...
The Art of Life and Death
Lessons in Budo From a Ninja Master
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
This masterfully crafted guide to ninjitsu or budo explores in depth the history, culture and philosophy of this fascinating and enduring Japanese martial art.
Budo is one of the least understood forms of art in the world. Even more than skills or techniques, the teachings of budo require faith...
by Alexei Ivanov, Philip Jowett
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
The Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria was the first 20th century conflict fought between the regular armies of major powers, employing the most modern means – machine guns, trench warfare, minefields and telephone communications; and the battle of Mukden in March 1905 was the largest clash of armies...
Going for Broke
Japanese American Soldiers in the War against Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Americans reacted with revulsion and horror. In the patriotic war fever that followed, thousands of volunteers—including Japanese Americans—rushed to military recruitment centers. Except for those in the Hawaii National Guard, who...
Japanese Infantryman 1937–45
Sword of the Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
This book examines in detail the Japanese Infantryman who was, despite comparisons with the notorious German Waffen SS, an enigma to Westerners. Brutal in its treatment of prisoners as well as the inhabitants of the areas that it conquered, the Imperial Japanese Army also had exacting standards for...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this is a unique federal report providing information on the facilities used in the World War II internment of Japanese Americans as part of the National Historic Landmarks Program of the National Park Service. "Commemorating...
Cha-No-Yu
The Japanese Tea Ceremony
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
This classic of Japanese cultural studies explains the famous Japanese tea ceremony or cha-no-yu with great scholarship and clarity.
In 1933, when A. L. Sadler's imposing book on the Japanese tea ceremony first appeared, there was no other work on the subject in English that even remotely approached...
The Hotel Tacloban
The Explosive True Story of One American's Journey to Hell in a Japanese POW Camp
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
A “very dramatic [and] compelling” World War II story of murder, mutiny, and a military cover-up, from the author of The Phoenix Program (The New York Times).
Captured by the Japanese while on patrol in the fetid jungles of New Guinea, Douglas Valentine’s father, who’d enlisted in the...
Hiroshima
The Autobiography of Barefoot Gen
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
This compelling autobiography tells the life story of famed manga artist Nakazawa Keiji. Born in Hiroshima in 1939, Nakazawa was six years old when on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the atomic bomb. His gritty and stunning account of the horrific aftermath is powerfully told through the...
by Mark Stille
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
During World War II the Imperial Japanese Navy was at the forefront of submarine technology. It fielded the largest pre-nuclear submarines in the world, some capable of carrying floatplane bombers, which operated alongside fast combat vessels and midget submarines, all equipped with the best torpedoes...
Quartered Safe Out Here
A Harrowing Tale of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2007
George MacDonald Fraser—beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels—offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the war's final year, and he offers a first-hand glimpse at the camaraderie, danger, and satisfactions...
Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyers 1919–45 (2)
Asashio to Tachibana Classes
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
During the Pacific War the most successful component of the Imperial Japanese Fleet was its destroyer force. These ships were larger and, in most cases, better-equipped than their Allied counterparts. Armed with a powerful, long-ranged torpedo, these ships proved formidable opponents. Initially, they...
by Stephen Wentworth Roskill
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Comprehensive, detailed, beautifully written, this is the last volume of the superb history of the naval war 1939 to 1945. This volume is mostly focused on the battles in the Pacific, Okinawa, Leyte Gulf, the Battle of the Bismarck, but it also covers the final surrenders in the Atlantic.
The...