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Japan has risen in stature to become an important player not only in the Western Pacific, but the wider Indo-Pacific. From a defeated nation that adopted a pacifist constitution and demilitarization……続きを見る

This collection of essays explores the development of electronic sound recording in Japanese cinema, radio, and popular music to illuminate the interrelationship of aesthetics, technology, and cultu……続きを見る

Soeda’s story provides insights into the last thousand years of Japanese history. It was the location of a strategically important castle, Ganjakujo, from the twelfth century until its destruction b……続きを見る

風起尾張，戰國秩序的崩裂 斯波氏式微、家臣內鬥、守護代之爭…… 從少年家督到尾張主君，重寫天下格局的霸主 ──織田信長！ ▎家族起源與成長背景 　　本書從信長的家族背景談起，探討織田氏的起源。書中指出織田家自……続きを見る

Just as higher education (HE) in Europe had its beginnings in religious training for the priesthood, HE in feudal Japan, too, provided instruction for a religious life. But while the evolution to se……続きを見る

The Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition brings together new research and perspectives on popular media phenomena, as well as shining a spotlight on texts that are less well ……続きを見る

一本研究民族文化的日本簡史 堪稱「日本國民性格說明書」 優雅與禮序×武士道與紀律 露絲．潘乃徳剖析溫柔與殘酷並存的日本文化 【從戰時觀察到文化理論的深度解讀】 《菊與刀》是美國文化人類學者露絲．潘乃徳於二……続きを見る

What happens when a nation that once redefined progress begins to decayーquietly, persistently, and in full view of the world? The Quiet Empire: The Comeback That Accelerates Collapse offers a power……続きを見る

In Indigenizing Japan, archaeologist Joe E. Watkins provides a comprehensive look at the rich history and cultural resilience of the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Hokkaido, Japan, tracing their jou……続きを見る

Step into the turbulent world of Japan's Sengoku period, where ambition, betrayal, and honor collide in a gripping tale of one man's rise and fall. This book unveils the life of Hōjō Ujimasa, the fo……続きを見る

While the intellectual history of the New Left is dominated by scholarship on western thinkers, Japan's radical theorists developed equally groundbreaking ideas, producing one of the most intense pe……続きを見る

Japan and Japonisme: The Self and the Other in Representations of Japanese Culture explores Japan’s engagement with and responses to Japonisme, and presents new perspectives on the history and endur……続きを見る

German merchants were attracted to the British Empire’s spheres of influence in northeast Asia from the 1700s. Their numbers increased when Britain established a network of treaty ports in China fro……続きを見る

Primera obra de investigación en castellano sobre un aberrante crimen perpetrado por Japón durante la Segunda Guerra, tardíamente visibilizado a nivel internacional: el sometimiento a esclavitud sex……続きを見る

Japan Before, During, and After World War II & the Economic Miracle From imperial ambitions to wartime devastation, Japan's journey through the twentieth century is a story of resilience and transfo……続きを見る

They weren't supposed to exist. Not officially. Not in the histories written by men with ink and authority. But when the Tokugawa order crumbled and war came to Aizu, the women of the Jōshitai didn'……続きを見る

ROT BENEATH THE BLOSSOMS ー HISTORY THAT BLEEDS, NOT BOWS This isn't your grandmother's cherry-blossom scrapbook. It's a war drum. A blade. A book thick enough to bruise, and sharp enough to cut. My……続きを見る

The various words for “divorce” in Japaneseー*rien, enkiri, fūfu wakare, rikonー*reflect how the socially constructed institutions of marriage and family, along with their dissolutions, have been un……続きを見る

In mid-fourteenth-century Japan, amid decades of civil unrest caused by a violent rivalry over imperial succession, three men embarked on journeys that would lead them to reimagine their world: the ……続きを見る

Step into the turbulent world of Japan's Sengoku era, where warlords clashed, alliances crumbled, and destinies were forged in blood and fire. This book unveils the gripping life of Hōjō Ujinao, the……続きを見る

Baseball is the national pastime of both the United States and Japan, but the two countries approach and play the game differently both on the field and away from it. To shed light on these differen……続きを見る

This collection of fourteen key papers deriving from CEEJA’s second international conference exploring the Japanese history of technology, concentrates on the routes to acquiring and transmitting te……続きを見る

For over a century, Japan has vexed and disappointed its Western allies by resisting their efforts to protect biodiversity. Consequently, foreign critics have long derided Japan as “the world’s bold……続きを見る

This book examines the politics of Japanese language learning in postcolonial Korea from 1945 through the 1970s, revealing the ways in which language functioned as a site of negotiations over identi……続きを見る

From the acclaimed Pacific War historian, the harrowing story of America’s bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the dramatic struggle to end World War II. Over three days in August 1945, a nation o……続きを見る

In the late seventeenth century, Japan’s cities were sites of vast diversity and dynamism. Following decades of explosive urbanization, individuals of different occupations and economic strata came ……続きを見る

In the turbulent rice fields of sixteenth-century Japan, where warlords rose and fell like seasonal storms, one man forged a dynasty from the mud of obscurity: Oda Nobunaga's father, Oda Nobuhide. T……続きを見る

What does it really take to build a football powerhouse not through luck or money, but through patience, vision, and decades of discipline? Blueprint of Victory follows Japan’s hundred-year quest to……続きを見る

For centuries, Japan's destiny was forged by the sword and guided by honor. This book brings to life the stories of the samurai who shaped an empire, warriors, warlords, and thinkers whose deeds bec……続きを見る

In the turbulent Sengoku period of Japan, where warlords clashed like tempests and the fate of a nation hung by a thread, Oda Nobuhiro emerges as one of history's most enigmatic and overlooked figur……続きを見る