Adding a new perspective to the current literature on decentralization in Japan, Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan, approaches the subject from an urban studies and planning approach. T……続きを見る
著者:Haruki Murakami
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年08月11日
In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrific terrorist attack on Japanese soil that shook the entire world.
On a clear spring day in 1995, fiv……続きを見る
Examining the 160 year relationship between America and Japan, this cutting edge collection considers the evolution of the relationship of these two nations which straddle the Pacific, from the firs……続きを見る
著者:Hiroki Azuma
出版社: University of Minnesota Press
発売日: 2013年11月30日
In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on within mainstr……続きを見る
著者:Norma Field
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年02月09日
When the Emperor Hirohito died in 1989, Japanese newspapers had to use a special, exalted word to refer to his death, and had to depict his life uncritically, as one beginning in turbulence but endi……続きを見る
著者:Christopher Benfey
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to “Old Japan,” with i……続きを見る
The Japanese military is accused of abducting 200,000 women, mostly from Korea, and using them as sex slaves. WWII military records provide a completely different perspective. This is a compilation ……続きを見る
The second edition of a comprehensive account of all the major aspects of the Japanese economy, substantially updated and expanded.
This textbook offers a comprehensive, rigorous but accessible acco……続きを見る
The fifty months of the Siberian Intervention encompass the existential crisis which affected Japanese at virtually all levels when confronted with the new "world situation" left in the wake of the ……続きを見る
著者:Daniel Ford
出版社: Warbird Books
発売日: 2015年12月29日
When Japanese planes laid waste to Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941, the United States had just one air combat unit on the continent of Asia. That was the 1st American Volunteer Group……続きを見る
Contested Governance in Japan extends the analysis of governance in contemporary Japan by exploring both the sites and issues of governance above and below the state as well as within it. This volum……続きを見る
著者:Jake Adelstein
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年10月13日
NOW A MAX ORIGINAL SERIES. A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist who "pulls the curtain back on ... [an] element of Japan……続きを見る
著者:Ben Hills
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2006年12月28日
The tragic true story of Japan's Crown Princess-with a new afterword by the author.
It's the fantasy of many young women: marry a handsome prince, move into a luxurious palace, and live happily ever……続きを見る
著者:André Sorensen
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2005年08月19日
During the twentieth century, Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into one of the world's largest industrial powers and most highly urbanised countries. Interestingly, while J……続きを見る
This is a new analysis of recent changes in important Japanese institutions. It addresses the origin, development, and recent adaptation of core institutions, including financial institutions, corpo……続きを見る
The old Japanese single-party system collapsed in 1993, but a new system has not yet fully evolved.
Following the most significant party reform in Japanese history, this book analyses the most recen……続きを見る
Based on a collection of labour contracts and other documents, this book examines the legal, economic and social relations of labour as they developed in the commercial enterprises of Tokugawa Japan……続きを見る
Lucie Blackmanーtall, blond, twenty-one years oldーstepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found bur……続きを見る
A Financial Times “Summer Books” Selection
“Will become required reading.”
ーTimes Literary Supplement
“Elegantly written…with a confidence that comes from decades of deep research on the topic, ill……続きを見る
著者:John Toland
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2014年11月26日
“[The Rising Sun] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war.”ーChicago Sun-Times
This Pulitzer Prize–winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic ris……続きを見る
WARRIOR. SAMURAI. LEGEND.
The remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.
The man who came to be kn……続きを見る
Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products are consumed a……続きを見る
著者:Linus Hagström
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2005年03月09日
Japan's China Policy understands Japan's foreign policy in terms of power - one of the most central concepts of political analysis. It contributes a fresh understanding to the subject by developing ……続きを見る
Winner of the 2022 Association for the Study of Japanese Mountain Religion Book Prize
Defining Shugendo brings together leading international experts on Japanese mountain asceticism to discuss what ……続きを見る
著者:Purnendra Jain
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2006年03月13日
This book moves away from the common belief that Japan’s international relations are firmly the preserve of the national government in Japan’s highly centralised political system. Examining examples……続きを見る
In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical att……続きを見る
NOW A MAJOR GOLDEN GLOBE, BAFTA AND EMMY-WINNING TV SERIES
'Clavell never puts a foot wrong . . . Get it, read it, you'll enjoy it mightily' Daily Mirror
This is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an ep……続きを見る
"Unbeaten Tracks in Japan" is compiled of the letters she sent to her sister during her 7 months sojourn in Japan in 1878. Her travels there took her from Edo (now called Tokyo) through the interior……続きを見る