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Tenryu-ji: One of Kyoto's most revered Zen temples and a monument to Japanese history, viewed through its monks, gardens, prayers, and art. This illustrated study of Tenryuji, ranked number one amon……続きを見る

Winner of the PEN Center USA Award for translation Award-winning author Junzo Shono weaves a stunning tapestry of everyday life in this collection of short stories. A young man, having failed his co……続きを見る

A stimulating exploration of the haiku masterpiece. Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan's greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a ……続きを見る

The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among the Japanese people. Yet the single year in which ……続きを見る

Dr. Friedrich von Kammacher ist ein bekannter Bakteriologe. Eines Tages erfährt er, dass seine Frau Angèle, mit der er drei kleine Kinder hat, unter einer erblich bedingten Geisteskrankheit leidet, ……続きを見る

Shibusawa Eiichi (1840–1931) was a Japanese banker and industrialist who spearheaded the modernization of Japanese industry and finance during the Meji Restoration. He founded the first modern bank ……続きを見る

In this first English-language history of the origins and impact of the Japanese pop music industry, Hiromu Nagahara connects the rise of mass entertainment, epitomized by ryūkōka (“popular songs”),……続きを見る

Against Harmony traces the history of progressive and radical experiments in Japanese Buddhist thought and practice, from the mid-Meiji period through the early Showa. Perhaps the two best represent……続きを見る

This is a book that will change the American perception of the Pacific War. One important question is: Who actually started the Pacific War? By examining recently discovered facts revealed through t……続きを見る

Classic works from Noh, Kyogen, and Kabuki theaters Nothing reflects the beauty of life as much as Japanese theater. It is here that reality is held suspended and the mind is filled with words, musi……続きを見る

In The Meaning of Internationalization, Edwin O. Reischauerーformer American Ambassador to Japan and one of the world's most acclaimed scholars of Japanese life and cultureーdelivers a heartfelt mes……続きを見る

Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, deto……続きを見る

This is the story of an invasion. Not one of men at arms, but rather an onslaught of women with babes in arms. And other children, too, from toddlers to teenagers. They came to Japan beginning short……続きを見る

America’s Japan and Japan’s Performing Arts studies the images and myths that have shaped the reception of Japan-related theater, music, and dance in the United States since the 1950s. Soon after Wo……続きを見る

On May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe Day-shortened to "V.E. Day"-brought with it the demise of Nazi Germany. But for the Allies, the war was only half-won. Exhausted but exuberant American soldiers, re……続きを見る

In the wake of its defeat in World War II, as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation, literature and literary criticism emerged as h……続きを見る

This guide to sex in Japan demystifies the infamous brothels and parlous of Tokyo and provides a wealth of first-hand information. An important part in any lover's arsenal is an understanding of the……続きを見る

This book provides an answer to the mystery of why no peace treaty has yet been signed between Japan and Russia after more than sixty years since the end of World War Two. The author, a leading auth……続きを見る

The nation state as we know it is a mere four or five hundred years old. Remarkably, a central government with vast territorial control emerged in Japan at around the same time as it did in Europe, ……続きを見る

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 h……続きを見る

In Japan, as late as the mid-nineteenth century, smallpox claimed the lives of an estimated twenty percent of all children bornーmost of them before the age of five. When the apathetic Tokugawa shog……続きを見る

Organized sex in Japan has always been big business, and nowhere was it more politely offered than in the Yoshiwara Yukwaku (red light district) of Tokyo. The appeal of the Yoshiwara was its women, ……続きを見る

The Japanese passion for photography is almost a cliché, but how did it begin? Although Japanese art photography has been widely studied this book is the first to demonstrate how photography became ……続きを見る

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SIX FOUR: A TENSE INVESTIGATION IN THE AFTERMATH OF AN AIR DISASTER. 'He's a master' New York Times Book Review 'Very different . . . to almost anything o……続きを見る

The year was 1945. Hundreds of thousands of Allied troops poured into war-torn Japan and spread throughout the country. The effect of this influx on the local population did not lessen in the years ……続きを見る

The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern, spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a cut-and-dried picture is not at al……続きを見る

The Premise of Fidelity puts forward a new history of Japanese visuality through an examination of the discourses and practices surrounding the nineteenth century transposition of "the real" in the ……続きを見る

This fascinating study examines the discourse of science in Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation to nationalism and imperialism. How did Japan, with Shinto creation mythology at the absolut……続きを見る

By any measure, Japan's modern empire was formidable. The only major non-western colonial power in the 20th century, Japan controlled a vast area of Asia and numerous archipelagos in the Pacific Oce……続きを見る

This volume seeks to capture the rich array of images that define Japan's encounters with the Pacific Ocean. Contemporary Japanese most readily associate 'Pacific' with the devastating war that thei……続きを見る