Japan category: 1648 books
by Stefan Tanaka
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
New Times in Modern Japan concerns the transformation of time--the reckoning of time--during Japan's Meiji period, specifically from around 1870 to 1900. Time literally changed as the archipelago synchronized with the Western imperialists' reckoning of time. The solar calendar and clock became standard...
A Cook's Journey to Japan
100 Homestyle Recipes from Japanese Kitchens
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Cook delicious and authentic Japanese meals in the comfort of your own home with this easy-to-use homestyle Japanese cookbook!
At twenty-eight years of age, Sarah Marx Feldner quit her job, sold her house, and moved to Japan to pursue her passion for Japanese food and cooking. A Cook's Journey...
The Fascist Effect
Japan and Italy, 1915–1952
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
During the interwar period, Japanese intellectuals, writers, activists, and politicians, although conscious of the many points of intersection between their politics and those of Mussolini, were ambivalent about the comparability of Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy.
In The Fascist Effect, Reto Hofmann...
JAPAN ALPS KAMIKOCHI
Scenic Spots and Hiking Trails with Many Photos
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
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This photo book introduces international tourists to Japan Alps Kamikochi 上高地 in Nagano 長野 prefecture. Kamikochi is one of the most beautiful scenic hiking places in Japan. It is a part of the...
by Philip Sandoz
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1996
This Japan travel guide features dozens of beautiful photographs and insightful commentary.
Japan: Land of Beauty and Tradition takes the reader on a sweeping tour of this always enticing and often surprising country. From the gaudy exuberance of the Sensoji temple to the tranquility of Ryoanji's...
Japan and Germany under the U.S. Occupation
A Comparative Analysis of Post-War Education Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Focusing on the post war reconstruction of the education systems in Japan and Germany under U.S. military occupation after World War II, this book offers a comparative historical investigation of education reform policies in these two war ravaged and ideologically compromised countries. While in Japan...
Rural Economic Development in Japan
From the Nineteenth Century to the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2006
In the historical literature on Japan, rural people have tended to be regarded as the exploited victims of the industrialisation process. This book provides an alternative view of the role and significance of the rural economy in Japan’s emergence as an economic power prior to World War II.
Using...
by Takashi Nishiyama
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Naval, aeronautic, and mechanical engineers played a powerful part in the military buildup of Japan in the early and mid-twentieth century. They belonged to a militaristic regime and embraced the importance of their role in it. Takashi Nishiyama examines the impact of war and peace on technological...
by Lonely Planet Food, Tienlon Ho, Rebecca Milner
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Lonely Planet presents Japan's most authentic dishes - direct from the kitchens where they were perfected.
From street-food vendors to Michelin-starred chefs, Japan's best local cooks share their passion for food and 60 of their region's classic recipes - from steaming soups and silky ramen...
Global Japan
The Experience of Japan's New Immigrant and Overseas Communities
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
The Japanese have long regarded themselves as a homogenous nation, clearly separate from other nations. However, this long-standing view is being undermined by the present international reality of increased global population movement. This has resulted in the establishment both of significant Japanese...
Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity
Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Depictions of an alcohol-saturated Japan populated by intoxicated salarymen, beer dispensing vending machines, and a generally tolerant approach to public drunkenness, typify domestic and international perceptions of Japanese drinking. Even the popular definitions of Japanese masculinity are interwoven...
by Geoffrey E. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
In Ghost's of '45, Geoffrey Hill addresses the great questions still revolving around Japan's past militarism---how did it get started, why were they so aggressive, why were individuals so submissive to authority, what was the reason Japanese felt superior, was American bombing and...
by Shinji Takagi
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
The Trek East represents Mormonism’s ongoing search for a haven in Japan that began at the turn of the twentieth century. This effort to evangelize and grow in Japan occurred with the backdrop of three forces of history that had emerged in the previous century. First, with the aspirations of Manifest...
Fifteen Lectures on Showa Japan
Road to the Pacific War in Recent Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Why did Showa Japan rush to war? Where did Japan fail? This compilation of the most up-to-date studies by 15 leading Japanese historians tries to find answers to these questions. Each chapter contains a list of selected reference books with brief annotations for the benefit of readers who wish to...