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Groundbreaking study demonstrating how Japan's leaders play an important role in diplomacy. A political leader is most often a nation's most high-profile foreign policy figure, its chief diplomat. B……続きを見る

Argues for an important transformation in the construction of the self among Japanese converts to Roman Catholicism. In many parts of the world, the Roman Catholic Church in the twenty-first century……続きを見る

Pioneering study of the localization of Chinese culture in early modern Japan, using legends, classics, and historical terms as case studies. While current scholarship on Tokugawa Japan (1603–1868) ……続きを見る

Explores the trend of lifelong learning in Japan as a means to deal with risk in a neoliberal era. Akihiro Ogawa explores Japan's recent embrace of lifelong learning as a means by which a neoliberal……続きを見る

Describes how writer Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) used his experience of the West to reconcile modernization and Japanese identity. Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) spent more time abroad than any other writer of h……続きを見る

Reveals the complicity between the Kyoto School's moral and political philosophy, based on the school's founder Nishida Kitarō's metaphysics of nothingness, and Japanese imperialism. In the field of……続きを見る

Chinese Studies in History contains unabridged translations of Chinese sources, primarily scholarly journals and collections of articles published in book form. The aim of the journal is to present ……続きを見る

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Japan’s Asian diplomacy under Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. Under the Kantei-centred policymaking system, Shinzō Abe has implemented assertive foreign pol……続きを見る

Why has postwar Japanese abortion policy been relatively progressive, while contraception policy has been relatively conservative? The Japanese government legalized abortion in 1948 but did not appr……続きを見る

With war on the horizon in the late 1930s, many Americans, still angry over the outcome of the Great War, determined not to get involved in another global conflict. Called isolationists or anti-inte……続きを見る

How did Buddhism, so prominent in Japanese life for over a thousand years, become the target of severe persecution in the social and political turmoil of the early Meiji era? How did it survive atta……続きを見る

In every part of the world and in every era, philosophers have reflected on the meaning of culture and its philosophical significance. Japanese Philosophers on Society and Culture:Nishida Kitaro, Wa……続きを見る

In this book, Yuko Kawai departs from the common conception of Japan as an ethnically homogenous nation. A Transnational Critique of Japaneseness: Cultural Nationalism, Racism, and Multiculturalism ……続きを見る

This book is a study of how the theories and actual practices of a Pan-Asian empire were produced during Japan’s war, 1931–1945. As Japan invaded China and conducted a full-scale war against the Uni……続きを見る

As the first book in English on the origins of Japanese historiography, using both archaeological and textual data, this book examines the connection between ancient Japan and the Korean kingdom of ……続きを見る

In early 1936, a German film team arrived in Japan to participate in a film coproduction, intended to show the 'real' Japan to the world and to launch Japanese films into international markets. The ……続きを見る

Based on never previously explored personal accounts and archival documentation, this book examines life and death in the Theresienstadt ghetto, seen through the eyes of the Jewish victims from Denm……続きを見る

In Visions of Democracy and Peace in Occupied Japan, Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti examines American occupation of Japan during World War II and the evolution of Japan’s political parties to highlight th……続きを見る

In her book A World Otherwise: Environmental Praxis in Minamata, Yuki Miyamoto examines the struggles of those suffering from Minamata disease, eponymous with the Japanese city in which a Chisso fac……続きを見る

A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost.. In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Jap……続きを見る

This is the true story of the eventful history of the famous Yagyū clanーa story that began during the early heady days of the Genkō Rebellion (1331–33), when emperor Go-Daigo sought to restore powe……続きを見る

Dies ist der gelungene Versuch uns der historischen Person Miyamoto Musashi, Japans berühmtesten Schwertkämpfer, zu nähern. W. de Lange forschte in Japan in den unterschiedlichsten Archiven akribisc……続きを見る

This book vividly portrays the past, current, and future development of Yokohama Chinatown through the context of its Cantonese residents, grounded through a family history. It is useful for both ac……続きを見る

The book examines the process and the impact of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), otherwise known as the Tokyo Trial, which was convened in 1946 to try the Japanese leade……続きを見る

Les histoires de fantômes ne manquent pas au Japon ! Entre les revenants qui hantent les maisons et les esprits qui effraient les passants, les Yurei forment une catégorie spécifique du folklore jap……続きを見る

**　　每個事件都與中國、世界歷史對照** **　　一目瞭然，給記憶一個重要的位置** **　　◎ 乾乾脆脆的，把日本歷史一次給理清楚** 　　這本書中，沒有乾澀的經濟資料和政策解讀，而是用通俗的語言，以萬世一系的1……続きを見る

Koza Dabasa explores Okinawa's island culture and its ghosts of war through the lens of Nenes, a four-woman pop group that draws on the distinctiveness and exoticism of Okinawan musical tradition. B……続きを見る

日本亞馬遜書店五星推薦！ 二戰結束七十周年，知日而非哈日的必讀經典！ 　　1945年8月14日中午到15日正午， 　　日本發布《終戰詔書》前24個小時，24幕跌宕起伏的人性和歷史舞台劇。 　　這是日本最漫長的一天！……続きを見る

For more than fifty years, William Elliot Griffis (1843–1928) chronicled a rapidly changing Meiji Japan and its people. He was unequaled in the length of his writing career and the breadth of his wo……続きを見る

In the 1960s, a new generation of university-educated youth in Japan challenged forms of capitalism and the state. In Coed Revolution Chelsea Szendi Schieder recounts the crucial stories of Japanese……続きを見る