著者:Wendy Matsumura
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2023年12月22日
In Waiting for the Cool Moon Wendy Matsumura interrogates the erasure of colonial violence at the heart of Japanese nation-state formation. She critiques Japan studies’ role in this effacement and c……続きを見る
A Japanese-inspired guide to living a happier, more fulfilled life.
Japonisme explores the Japanese art of finding contentment and includes practical tips and tricks to live a happier, healthier, mo……続きを見る
著者:Mark Ravina
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2017年09月15日
The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways. Foreign observers were terrified that Japan would lapse into violent xenophobia. But th……続きを見る
The story of Japanese involvement in WWII is one that includes a number of amazing events between 1939 and 1945. The Japanese went from fighting against just the Chinese to attempting to practically……続きを見る
Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and extremely readable journey through Japan's cultural history.
This much-anticipated sequel t……続きを見る
Japan’s U.S.–imposed postwar constitution renounced the use of offensive military force, but, as Sheila Smith shows, a nuclear North Korea and an increasingly assertive China have the Japanese rethi……続きを見る
From before the dawn of recorded history, there has been a rich flow of interaction between Japan and China. Japan has long learned many things from Chinese civilization, and since the modern era Ch……続きを見る
Japan's Cultural Code Words offers a study of Japanese society through analysis of key terms and concepts that define Japanese attitudes and behaviors.
Japan's traditional culture is so powerful tha……続きを見る
Originally published in 1931, this classic work of interpretative Japanese scholarship was revised in 1946 and again in 1952.
Although termed "a short history," the book-the only distinguished gener……続きを見る
The kimono is an iconic garment with a history as rich and colourful as the textiles from which it is crafted. Deeply associated with Japanese culture both past and present, it has often been though……続きを見る
著者:John M. Yumoto
出版社: Tuttle Publishing
発売日: 2013年01月08日
The samurai sword: a symbol of the spirit of old Japan, it embodies the samurai's steel discipline, unswerving devotion and peerless skill. With its creation, a feat of craftsmanship passed down by ……続きを見る
Take a colorful tour of Japan's capital with this alternative Japan travel guide that explores Tokyo's distinctive architecture, fashion, food, and so much more.
Tokyo - Capital of Cool delves into ……続きを見る
This classic of Japanese studies presents extensive information about the history, culture and practice of Noh dramaーone of Japan's most treasured dramatic art forms.
Noh as an independent and orig……続きを見る
"Lust will not keep…Something must be done about it."ーinscription at the entrance to Yoshiwara
For over a hundred years the Western world has heard whispers of the pleasure city, Yoshiwara, set beh……続きを見る
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The constitution of Japan was largely drafted by US lawyers in the occupation authority. This image is of a secret memo written by members of the authority on the subject of the ne……続きを見る
The city of Kyoto has undergone radical shifts in its significance as a political and cultural center, as a hub of the national bureaucracy, as a symbolic and religious center, and as a site for the……続きを見る
著者:John Dower
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年03月28日
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A monumental history that has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books ……続きを見る
This book is a burning flame. "A Cry From The Heart" is what the author needs to share with all of you who care about the future. Wake up! he says, Fukushima is only the tip of the iceberg.
Yogan Ba……続きを見る
In the tempestuous closing decades of the sixteenth century, the Empire of Japan writhes in chaos as the shogunate crumbles and rival warlords battle for supremacy. Warrior monks in their armed cita……続きを見る
著者:Gavin Walker
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2016年02月25日
In The Sublime Perversion of Capital Gavin Walker examines the Japanese debate about capitalism between the 1920s and 1950s, using it as a "prehistory" to consider current discussions of uneven deve……続きを見る
In 'The Classics of Egyptian Literature and Historical Sources' by E. A. Wallis Budge, readers are presented with a comprehensive collection of translated texts from ancient Egyptian literature and ……続きを見る
著者:Jing Sun
出版社: University of Michigan Press
発売日: 2012年08月02日
In international relations today, influence is as essential as military and economic might. Consequently, leaders promote favorable images of the state in order to attract allies and win support for……続きを見る
著者:David J. Lu
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2015年03月04日
An updated edition of David Lu's acclaimed "Sources of Japanese History", this two volume book presents in a student-friendly format original Japanese documents from Japan's mythological beginnings ……続きを見る
Japan’s Household Registration System (koseki seido) is an extremely powerful state instrument, and is socially entrenched with a long history of population governance, social control and the mainte……続きを見る
著者:Marius B. Jansen
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2002年10月15日
Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty year……続きを見る
著者:Mark D. West
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2010年02月15日
Lawsuits are rare events in most people's lives. High-stakes cases are even less commonplace. Why is it, then, that scholarship about the Japanese legal system has focused almost exclusively on epic……続きを見る
A 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan prov……続きを見る
著者:Roger Maynard
出版社: Hachette Australia
発売日: 2014年07月29日
Survival, heroism, courage and mateship in Ambon - a place of nightmares.
In February, 1942, Ambon, an Indonesian island north of Darwin, fell to the Japanese army and the Allied forces defending it……続きを見る
Following a crushing defeat in World War II, Japan rose like a phoenix from the literal ashes to become a model of modernity and success, for decades Asia’s premier economic giant. Yet it remains a ……続きを見る