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How does a small provincial city in southern Japan become the site of a world-famous wheelchair marathon that has been attracting the best international athletes since 1981? In More Than Medals, Den……続きを見る

"The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere offers a lucid, dynamic, and highly readable history of Japan's attempt to usher in a new order in Asia during World War II." â• Cross-Currents: East Asia……続きを見る

The reign of the Tokugawa shoguns was a time of statebuilding and cultural transformation, but it was also a period of ikki: peasant rebellion. James W. White reconstructs the pattern of social conf……続きを見る

Robots Won't Save Japan addresses the Japanese government's efforts to develop care robots in response to the challenges of an aging population, rising demand for eldercare, and a critical shortage ……続きを見る

During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945–1952), U.S. film studiosーin close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command for the Allied Powersーlaunched an ambitious campaig……続きを見る

In Waste**, Eiko Maruko Siniawer innovatively explores the many ways in which the Japanese have thought about wasteーin terms of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resourcesーfrom the immediate af……続きを見る

Imperial Japanese soldiers were notorious for blindly following orders, and their enemies in the Pacific War derided them as "cattle to the slaughter." But, in fact, the Japanese Army had a long his……続きを見る

In Samurai to Soldier**, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan.** In fifty years spanning the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji nati……続きを見る

Justin Jesty's Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan reframes the history of art and its politics in Japan post-1945. This fascinating cultural history addresses our broad understanding of the i……続きを見る

Disruptions of Daily Life explores the mass media landscape of early twentieth century in order to uncover the subversive societal impact of four major Japanese authors: Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Yokomit……続きを見る

From Country to Nationtracks the emergence of the modern Japanese nation in the nineteenth century through the history of some of its local aspirants. It explores how kokugaku (Japan studies) schola……続きを見る

Cultural Imprintsdraws on literary works, artifacts, performing arts, and documents that were created by or about the samurai to examine individual "imprints," traces holding specifically grounded h……続きを見る

The lives of the men depicted in Perilous Wagers take place in the squalor of Tokyo's old day-laborer district, San'ya, where they can be found eking out a living from occasional construction work a……続きを見る

The Dialectics of Absolute Nothingness investigates the appropriations, critiques, and innovative interpretations of German philosophy by the Kyoto School, showing how central concepts of German phi……続きを見る

Combining history with comparative politics, Matthew M. Carlson and Steven R. Reed take on political corruption and scandals, and the reforms designed to counter them, in post–World War II Japan. Po……続きを見る

Celebrating Sorrow explores the medieval Japanese fascination with grief in tributes to The Tale of Sagoromo**, the classic story of a young man whose unrequited love for his foster sister leads him……続きを見る

The prewar history of the Japanese intelligence community demonstrates how having power over much, but insight into little can have devastating consequences. Its postwar historyーone of limited Japa……続きを見る

In Inglorious, Illegal Bastards**, Aaron Herald Skabelund examines how the Self-Defense Force (SDF)ーthe post–World War II Japanese militaryーand specifically the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF), s……続きを見る

In Our Unions, Our Selves**, Anne Zacharias-Walsh provides an in-depth look at the rise of women-only unions in Japan, an organizational analysis of the challenges these new unions face in practice,……続きを見る

Discover the Chaos and Calm of Feudal JapanーWhile Leveling Up Your Japanese! Japan’s Jidai Series Volume 5: Sengoku & Edo Periods Ready for some serious drama? From the brutal battlefield tactics o……続きを見る

鋼鐵與櫻花的矛盾體 柔美外表下蘊藏強大的軍國野心 厄普頓．克洛斯，以西方視角剖析最真實的日本 【作品背景與作者視角】 本書由美國作家、記者厄普頓．克洛斯撰寫，是一部探索日本社會、文化、歷史與軍事的著作。……続きを見る

This unique collection provides critical analyses of Japanese educational history by bringing together gender, transnational, and transcultural perspectives. It illustrates how Japanese, European, a……続きを見る

Il Passo della Vergine è una sperduta piana sui monti alle spalle di Tsuwano, una piccola cittadina nel Sud del Giappone. Fu in questo luogo che, in seguito alla ripresa delle persecuzioni anticrist……続きを見る

An in-depth look at the battles at Kokoda, Milne Bay and Buna-Gona, which saw the Japanese battle the Australians and Americans on Papua. The Japanese invasion of, and ejection from, the Territory o……続きを見る

Japan is a place where powerful earthquakes have occurred more frequently and have caused more harm in the modern era than they have in all but a handful of other locations on the planet. In the twe……続きを見る

Special Award, 2026 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize The proliferation of railroads around the world was integral to the emergence of a global market-based economy at the turn of the twentieth century……続きを見る

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Philosophie der japanischen Küche – in ihrer ganzen Tiefe, Geschichte und Vielfalt! Tauchen Sie ein in die einzigartige kulinarische Reise "Die Evolution der japanisc……続きを見る

WARNING: This book contains these secrets: 1. Feet of steel 2. Fist of Iron 3. Oriental Death Gouge 4. Invisibility of Terror 5. And many more...too vicious to enumerate TERRIFYING! DEADLY! DESTRUCT……続きを見る

Au Japon, la Seconde Guerre mondiale et l’occupation américaine ont gardé aujourd’hui encore une forme d’actualité. Entre conviction profonde et instrumentalisation de la mémoire, la lecture de l’hi……続きを見る

穿越千年，成就神威 20位教科書級歷史人物，凝鍊大和之魂！ 誰是日本人？！ 從神祕的卑彌呼女王，到搭著子彈列車的和服女孩，日本這個國家充滿著隱晦又曖昧的氛圍ーー禪意與科技共存，傳統與未來並行。令國人自傲……続きを見る