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On March 11, 2011 one of the most powerful earthquakes in recorded history devastated Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and nuclear meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Pow……続きを見る

"Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Holocaust by Derek Pua, is not for the faint of heart. It is, however, for anyone wanting to more clearly understand the extent of Imperial Japanese war crimes. This b……続きを見る

The definitive history of American war reporting in the Pacific theater of World War II, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After almost two years slo……続きを見る

Suzuki Shin’ichi, the Tokyo String Quartet, Midori - How did Japanese violinists manage to revolutionize violin teaching, win international competitions, conquer Western concert stages, study at wor……続きを見る

The nineteenth century saw the emergence both of history as an independent scientific discipline and of national history as a means to legitimize the nation state. In History and the State in Ninete……続きを見る

This book approaches the concept of tenkō (political conversion) as a response to the global crisis of interwar modernity, as opposed to a distinctly Japanese experience in postwar debates. Tenkō co……続きを見る

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

2022 Skipping Stones Honor Awards Recipient | 2021 NCTAsia Freeman Award Honorable Mention The true story of how one Japanese village suffered and survived the mercury poisoning of its waters. A pow……続きを見る

Popular understanding of Zen Buddhism typically involves a stereotyped image of isolated individuals in meditation, contemplating nothingness. This book presents the "other side of Zen," by examinin……続きを見る

激盪的日本百年近代史 　　▍明治偉業的開端 　　1853年，培理率領美國艦隊訪日，從而打破了日本鎖國200年的平靜美夢…… 　　▪開港論與攘夷論的激烈爭辯 攘夷論者斷然拒絕美國提出的開港要求，堅持擊退美國船隻；而……続きを見る

Articles crafted from lacquer, silk, cotton, paper, ceramics, and iron were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and their ……続きを見る

The contributors to this book examine and compare the colonial and decolonisation experiences of people in Taiwan and Nan’yō Guntō – Micronesia – who underwent periods of rule by the Greater Japanes……続きを見る

Multiethnic Japan challenges the received view of Japanese society as ethnically homogeneous. Employing a wide array of arguments and evidence--historical and comparative, interviews and observation……続きを見る

Mountain Witches is a comprehensive guide to the complex figure of yamaubaーfemale yōkai often translated as mountain witches, who are commonly described as tall, enigmatic women with long hair, pie……続きを見る

We thank Ekman & Co AB and Gadelius Holding Ltd for their kind and generous support, making this research available online for free. Lottaz and Ottosson explore the intricate relationship between ne……続きを見る

Home to a rapidly rising superpower and the two largest economies in the world after the US, a global East Asia is seen and felt everywhere. This dynamic text views the global square from the perspe……続きを見る

本書以人物傳論形式展示出明治維新的歷史，包括政治、外交、憲法、思想、軍事、實業、學術、文化各個方面，總共一百二十人，從多元角度反映出明治時期日本的社會面貌。他們在日本現代化進程中所擔當的角色和產生的……続きを見る

During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S. government decided to make Japan its bulwark against communism in Asia. In this re……続きを見る

Theodore Roosevelt's interest in foreign affairs was no less intense than his zeal for domestic reform, as Eugene P. Trani demonstrates in this new study of the Portsmouth Conference which in 1906 b……続きを見る

要了解一個國家， 就不能錯過城中發生的事！ 透過解讀日本名城中的重大事件， 一次弄懂從建國至今的千年歷史 ‧每座日本城……看起來好像差不多？ ‧一脫離東京大阪等主要都市，對於當地的歷史就有看沒有懂？ ‧遊覽名……続きを見る

Japan is one of the most crowded countries on earth, with three-fourths of its population now living in cities. Tokyo is easily the most populous city on the planet. And yet, though closely packed, ……続きを見る

This book is based on the author’s 33 years of intensive fieldwork. It chronicles a major movement that shaped the preservation policy in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s, providing “thick descriptions”……続きを見る

The Shikoku pilgrimage, a 1400 kilometre, eighty-eight temple circuit around Japan's fourth largest island, takes around forty days by foot, or one week by car. Historically, Buddhist ascetics walke……続きを見る

For generations, children’s books provided American readers with their first impressions of Japan. Seemingly authoritative, and full of fascinating details about daily life in a distant land, these ……続きを見る

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assi……続きを見る

Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but his……続きを見る

With this book the editors complete the three-volume series on modern Japanese colonialism and imperialism that began with The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945 (Princeton, 1983) and The Japanese ……続きを見る

‘In doing what is normal for any trade union activist today – recruiting, arguing and organising – my comrades and I were made to suffer persecution, imprisonment and death’ This inspiring memoir te……続きを見る

2018 marked the 150th anniversary of Japan’s Meiji Restoration, a milestone that the government of Prime Minister Abe Shinzō has actively sought to highlight and celebrate. Whereas other studies hav……続きを見る

A rare insider’s account of the inner workings of the Japanese economy, and the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy, by a career central banker The Japanese economy, once the envy of the world for its d……続きを見る