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George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe, Africa, and Asia. At the war’s end in September 1945, under General MacArthur’s media blackout, correspond……続きを見る

Koreans constituted the largest colonial labor force in imperial Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Caught between the Scylla of agricultural destitution in Korea and the Charybdis of industrial depr……続きを見る

Long before karaoke’s ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and contributed to new cultural forms. In Electrified Voic……続きを見る

外国人研究者の視点から、日本法の基本的な特徴を英語で広く世界に発信する。一般的に日本法は明治維新後に外国法がどのように継受、修正されたかが問題とされるが、本書では特に、日本法を取り囲む様々な基層を踏……続きを見る

"The Book of Tea" was written by Okakura Kakuzo in the early 20th century. It was first published in 1906, and has since been republished many times. It is a short volume that explains the unique tr……続きを見る

That Imperial Japan closely resembled authoritarian Germany was no simple coincidence. This book explores the effect of German thought on nineteenth century Japan, focusing on Hermann Roesler-the mo……続きを見る

東京上方的天空，由美軍作主！ 未經許可，日籍民航機一律禁止進入； 美軍及其眷屬在日本全境享有治外法權， 無論犯案下何種罪行，皆不受日本法律制裁…… 　　二戰結束迄今逾七十年， 　　看似主權獨立的日本，為何……続きを見る

**　　透過滿洲國孕育的鬼胎 　　──「昭和妖怪」岸信介與「獨裁者」朴正熙的故事， 　　把大日本帝國、滿洲國，及戰後的日、韓精彩黏合。** **　　計劃、統制經濟、國家社會主義， 　　「滿洲國試驗場」留給後世東……続きを見る

關原合戰後遭徳川家移封防長的毛利家， 如何捲土重來、躋身強藩，成為幕末時期推動明治維新的長州藩？ 薩長倒幕的本質，是革命，還是一齣沉潛二百餘年的奪權復仇劇！？ 在近代以「盛產日本首相」聞名的山口縣究竟……続きを見る

In Japan Restored, New York Times bestselling author Clyde Prestowitz envisions post-bubble Japan in the year 2050, when the country's economic prosperity will have made it a world leader in every a……続きを見る

In The Soul of Anime, Ian Condry explores the emergence of anime, Japanese animated film and television, as a global cultural phenomenon. Drawing on ethnographic research, including interviews with ……続きを見る

Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese Aesthetics. This provocative book is a tractateーa treatiseーon beauty in Japanese art, written in the……続きを見る

After the Pacific War, the bitter enemies Japan and the United States became fast friends and allies. Most observers in the West believe Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor was unprovoked, but what had l……続きを見る

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 di……続きを見る

Beyond Zen: D. T. Suzuki and the Modern Transformation of Buddhism is an accessible collection of multidisciplinary essays, which offer a genuinely new appraisal of the great Zen scholar-practitione……続きを見る

What are people’s life experiences in present-day Japan? This timely volume addresses fundamental questions vital to understanding Japan in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Its chapters……続きを見る

從「茶」到「美」 對比近代歐美的物質主義文明與東洋的傳統精神文化 出版逾百年 西方理解東方文化的指南讀本 　　《茶之書》的作者ーー岡倉天心（一八六三到一九一三），生於日本横濱，父親原為福井藩士，後受命轉……続きを見る

司馬遼太郎 戰國系列最令人擊節讚賞的作品 激勵人心、精采絕倫的 非典型武將傳記 洞悉人性、運籌帷幄的 最佳政治說客典範 能屈能伸、能死能生的 職場生存術 【名家推薦】 辜振豐　文化觀察家 劉必榮　東吳大學政治……続きを見る

Bushido: The Soul Of Japan by Inazo Nitobe A century ago, when Japan was transforming itself from an isolated feudal society into a modern nation, a Japanese educator queried about the ethos of his ……続きを見る

For the first time in English, Stephen Earle tells the epic story of Nakamura Tempu, one of Japan’s most inspirational twentieth-century thinkers and teachers, whose mind-body approach to personal t……続きを見る

No other country has devised a grand strategy for managing China’s rising economic and military power as deliberately or successfully as Japan. Seeking to counter Chinese ambitions toward regional h……続きを見る

In easy-to-understand language, a 20th-century Zen master explains profound teachings from Zen Buddhism, offering an essential resource for anyone interested in Zen meditation. “You can’t see your t……続きを見る

This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself a……続きを見る

「有意考察都市或是東京的人不可不讀的作品，一部所謂的經典！」 ──川本三郎（作家，藝文評論家） ◇⊱ー「三得利學藝獎」得獎作品ー⊰◇ ◇⊱ー「江戶東京學」經典之作ー⊰◇ 當代的東京具備了哪些特徵？ 建築與都市史的……続きを見る

A powerful and thought-provoking novel that raises important questions about World War II, war memory, and US imperialism and blowback. In the Woods of Memory is a powerful, thought-provoking novel ……続きを見る

Although the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imperial exploits continue to haunt Korea, China, and Taiwan. In ……続きを見る

By the early 1970s, Japan had become an affluent consumer society, riding a growing economy to widely shared prosperity. In the aftermath of the fiery political activism of 1968, the country settled……続きを見る

從臺灣近代糖業史，看資本主義脈絡下的兩面刃 砂糖自15世紀以降的「地理大發現」時代起，即成為世界商品，深刻地影響世界各地近現代史的形成並塑造成今日世界的樣貌。臺灣也因為砂糖而初登世界史的舞台，其重要性……続きを見る

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known as Tokyo - and a portrait of a great city on the brink of……続きを見る

In Rana Mitter's tense, moving and hugely important book, the war between China and Japan - one of the most important struggles of the Second World War - at last gets the masterly history it deserve……続きを見る