KIYO - History 1

**A newly discovered firsthand account of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath from one of the survivorsーa lost classic that brings unprecedented immediacy to our understanding of this world-cha……続きを見る

Grassroots Fascism profiles the Asia Pacific War (1937–1945)ーthe most important though least understood experience of Japan's modern historyーthrough the lens of ordinary Japanese life. Moving deft……続きを見る

When Kiyo’s father left Japan, his mother told him never to return: there was no future there for him. Shinji Sato arrived in California determined to plant his roots in the land of opportunity even……続きを見る

'Irrefutable and beautiful' New York Times 'Only Kiyoko Murata can convey this world' YOKO OGAWA, author of The Memory Police, Yomiuri Shibun The year is 1903, and tenacious and spirited Aoi Ichi is……続きを見る

The collapse of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s resulted in a transition to fluctuating rather than fixed currency system. This brought sterling into the turmoil of the world currency ma……続きを見る

This book analyses two international incidents in the 1920s shocked Japan and changed the way in which the country looked at the West. In the Paris Peace Conference, Japanese proposed Racial Equalit……続きを見る

Why did Showa Japan rush to war? Where did Japan fail? This compilation of the most up-to-date studies by 15 leading Japanese historians tries to find answers to these questions. Each chapter contai……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

What makes Japanese music sound Japanese? Each genre of Japan's pre-Western music (hogaku) morphed from the preceding one with singing at its foundation. In ancient Shinto prayers, words of power re……続きを見る

The japanese Noh drama by the Master Zeami Motokiyo about the Buddhist priest Rensei and the warrior of the Taira Clan Atsumori. The story of redention of the warrior Kumagai Jiro Naozane that kille……続きを見る

The Chinese Buddhist canon is a systematic collection of all translated Buddhist scriptures and related literatures created in East Asia and has been regarded as one of the “three treasures” in Budd……続きを見る

This edited volume presents the latest multidisciplinary research that delves into developments related to contemporary Okinawa (a.k.a Ryukyu Islands), and also engages with contemporary debates on ……続きを見る

A story of a con artist becomes an internation’s contended issue involving the US, and the issue dangers a diplomatic tie between Japan and South Korea and the security alliances among the US, South……続きを見る

It is now known that the Ainu is the oldest tribe having once occupied the land of Japan before some strong tribes came from the Southern Asia and landed and pushed the Ainus gradually up northward.……続きを見る

YUKARA epos of the Ainus study and translation of Kamuy-Yukara by Kiyoko Miura MY DEAR UNCLE "T" had so enthusiastically recommended me to read the Ainu epics and given one of the books as a special……続きを見る