Journalist-by-trade Lafcadio Hearn used his wanderer's eye and guileless, graceful style to provide elegant chronicles for an English-speaking world fascinated by the exotic sensibilities of Japan. ……続きを見る
This volume presents a series of five portraits of Edo, the central region of urban space today known as Tokyo, from the great fire of 1657 to the devastating earthquake of 1855. This book endeavors……続きを見る
Take a step back in time to the origins of Japan's creation mythーtold here for the very first time in illustrated form.
In the beginning there was nothingーa void. Then the heavens and the earth to……続きを見る
著者:Michael Wert
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2019年06月03日
The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, ……続きを見る
著者:Sueo Sudo
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年01月11日
The International Relations of Japan and South East Asia asks three main questions: how and when has a new South East Asian regionalism been set in motion? what is the nature of Japanese leadership ……続きを見る
著者:Sidney Osborne
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2010年10月18日
This volume examines the issues surrounding the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Alliance and looks at the possible consequences of different courses of action, against a backdrop of a Far Ea……続きを見る
著者:E Causton
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2010年11月01日
The Manchurian "Incident" of 1931 led to a Japanese occupation, the birth of Manchoukuo and the withdrawal of Japan from the League of Nations. At the time it seemed as if the army and navy were exe……続きを見る
著者:Ian W. Shaw
出版社: Hachette Australia
発売日: 2017年06月27日
The unknown story of how a fleet of Australian fishing boats, trawlers and schooners supplied US and Australian forces in the Pacific - and helped turn the course of World War II.
Mid-1942: from Chi……続きを見る
This book provides an overview of Japan in late 19th century and its history. It also provides an insight of Japanese society as it moved from the traditional Edo period lifestyle towards industrial……続きを見る
‘There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War’ John Keegan
Life and death in Nine Section, a small group of hard-bitten and (to moder……続きを見る
Written by the Director of the Tokyo Trial Research Centre at China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, this book provides a unique analysis of war crime trials in Asia-Pacific after World War II. It o……続きを見る
This book explains compellingly that, despite common belief, in the early modern period, the intra-East Asian commercial network still functioned sustainably, and within that network, the Sino-Japan……続きを見る
Written by Chinese Jurist Mei Ju-ao, this significant book considers both the process and the impact of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, otherwise known as the Tokyo Trial, whic……続きを見る
Japan was a physical and psychological wasteland at the end of World War II. With over 3 million dead, 39 percent of city populations homeless, 40 percent of all urban areas flattened, 80 percent of……続きを見る
Learn to make every moment a once-in-a-lifetime experience with this definitive guide to the Japanese art of ichigo ichie, from the bestselling authors of Ikigai.
'Ikigai urges individuals to simpli……続きを見る
著者:Benjamin Duke
出版社: Rutgers University Press
発売日: 2019年06月21日
This is the first biography in English of an uncommon American, Dr. David Murray, a professor of mathematics at Rutgers College, who was appointed by the Japanese government as Superintendent of Edu……続きを見る
The most significant debate in global economic history over the past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic gap between different parts of the world. Thus far, this debate ha……続きを見る
On August 9th, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
It killed a third of the population instantly, and the survivors, or hibakusha, would be affected by the life-altering medical conditi……続きを見る
著者:Raja Adal
出版社: Columbia University Press
発売日: 2019年08月13日
When modern primary schools were first founded in Japan and Egypt in the 1870s, they did not teach art. Yet by the middle of the twentieth century, art education was a permanent part of Japanese and……続きを見る
In Bridges to the Rising Sun, her second autobiographical book, Gladys Muir describes the life of her family living in post-war Japan where she worked along with her husband Frank as a teacher and m……続きを見る
著者:John W. Dower
出版社: The New Press
発売日: 2014年12月09日
"A series of astute academic essays on the forging of postwar Japan" from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and Bancroft Prize ( Kirkus Reviews).
Remembering and reconstructing ……続きを見る
著者:KARUBE Tadashi, David NOBLE
出版社: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture
発売日: 2019年07月26日
In 2018, Japan marked the 150th anniversary of the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the establishment of a new government under Emperor Meiji. This was not simply a transfer of political autho……続きを見る
著者:Minhyuk Hwang
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2019年07月23日
Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Bourgeois Liberalism introduces readers to the East Asian Enlightenment led by Fukuzawa Yukichi, one of the most important figures in the intellectual history of modern Japan. Des……続きを見る
What happens when a group of people see things that others do not and begin acting accordingly? The Augmented Reality of Pokémon GO: Chronotopes, Moral Panic, and Other Complexities explores this qu……続きを見る
American and European political scientists have claimed that subnational elections almost always record lower voter turnout than national elections. In Japan, however, municipal elections often reco……続きを見る
Historical surveys of postwar Japan are usually established on the grounds that the era is already over, interpreting "postwar" to be the years directly proceeding World War II. However, the contrib……続きを見る
The latest edition of this comprehensive and user-friendly textbook provides a single volume resource for all those studying Japan's international relations. It offers a clear and concise introducti……続きを見る
Over the past fifteen years Northeast Asia has witnessed growing intraregional exchanges and interactions, especially in the realms of culture and economy. Still, the region cannot escape from the b……続きを見る