著者:M. G. Sheftall
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2024年09月10日
**One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction From 2024
The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicabl……続きを見る
The difficult mission of a regime change: Toshio Nishi gives an account of how America converted the Japanese mindset from war to peace following World War II.
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The beguiling story of the Minaguchi-ya, an ancient inn on the Tokaido Road, founded on the eve of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. Travellers and guests flow into and past the inn ー wa……続きを見る
著者:Christina Yi
出版社: Columbia University Press
発売日: 2018年03月06日
With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894, Japan embarked on a policy of territorial expansion that would claim Taiwan and Korea, among others. Assimilation policies led to a significant bo……続きを見る
First published in 1895, "The War in the East" by Trumbull White is a book about the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), a war between the Qing dynasty of China, and the Empire of Japan, primarily ……続きを見る
When American Occupation troops withdrew from Japan did they leave behind a truly independent country? Or did they leave in place a behind the scenes network that determined much of the course of Ja……続きを見る
著者:Anne Allison
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2014年02月04日
In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social……続きを見る
Thinking of getting a Japanese-style tattoo? Want to avoid a permanent mistake? Japanese Tattoos is an insider's look at the world of Japanese irezumi (tattoos).
Japanese Tattoos explains the imager……続きを見る
Kabuki A Pocket Guide introduces readers to the foundations of Kabukiーits history and its actors, its acting styles and its performance, its color and musicーto the sheer beauty and joy of Kabuki.
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著者:Heino Engel
出版社: Tuttle Publishing
発売日: 2020年08月11日
A remarkable classic work on traditional Japanese architecture and its general integrative quality, the order of space and form, the flexibility of partitions and room functions and other important ……続きを見る
THE contents of this book are primarily personal experiences of a seven years' stay in the house of a Japanese nobleman, having been gleaned from jottings in my diary and such reminiscences as my me……続きを見る
A History of Japanese Art offers readers a comprehensive view of Japanese art through Japanese eyesーa view that is the most revealing of all perspectives. At the same time, it provides readers with……続きを見る
How does a nation, defeated in war, respond to externally imposed reforms that set that nations family system upside down, completely eliminating the familys modus operandi At least that is what the……続きを見る
This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
It is told through the eyes of people who greeted this ch……続きを見る
著者:Donald Keene
出版社: Columbia University Press
発売日: 2005年06月14日
The renowned Japanese scholar " brings us as close to the inner life of the Meiji emperor as we are ever likely to get" ( The New York Times Book Review ).
When Emperor Meiji began his rule in 186……続きを見る
著者:André Bellessort
出版社: Revue des Deux Mondes, Paris, 1917
発売日: 2019年10月24日
André Bellessort (1866-1942) grand voyageur, écrivain-ethnologue, visite le Japon en 1895, puis à l’aube de la déclaration de guerre en 1914 et décrit ses rencontres et les changements d’attitudes d……続きを見る
著者:James Steele
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2017年03月16日
Contemporary Japanese Architecture presents a clear and comprehensive overview of the historical and cultural framework that informs the work of all Japanese architects, as an introduction to an in-……続きを見る
著者:Federico Marcon
出版社: The University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2015年07月16日
"Opens a fascinating window into the history of Japan's relationship to its natural environment. . . . A must-read for historians of early modern science." ー New Books in East Asian Studies
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Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows, millions of immigrants make their lives in Japan, dealing with the tensions between belonging and not belonging in this ……続きを見る
Kyoto, the ancient former capital of Japan, breathes history and mystery. Its temples, gardens and palaces are testimony to many centuries of aristocratic and religious grandeur. Under the veneer of……続きを見る
"It's a nice tome for armchair travel, whisking you off around the country from where you sitーor time travel, taking you back to that life-changing decade-lost holiday and old friends."ーThe Japan ……続きを見る
If you want to discover the captivating history of Japan, then keep reading...
Japan is one of the most adaptable countries in the world. It is capable of very rapid change, even after crises that w……続きを見る