Asia - Japan
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A Concise History of Japan
$34.00 Add to cartTo this day, Japan’s modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this eng… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Walker, Brett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 359
- Publish Date: February 26 2015
- ISBN10: 052117872X
- Language: English
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The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City
$25.99 Add to cartAn elegant and absorbing tour of Tokyo and its residents
From 1632 until 1854, Japan’s rulers restricted contact with foreign countries, a near isolation that fostered a remarkable and unique culture t- Author: Sherman, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1250206421
- Language: English
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The Way of the Samurai
$9.99 Add to cart“The Way of the Samurai: Unveiling the Heart of Ancient Warriors”
When you hear the word “samurai,” you might imagine fierce fighters wearing masks and wielding long swords. But there’s more to samurai
- Author: Nitobe, Inazo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: May 27 2024
- ISBN10: 7854440115
- Language: English
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Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
$28.00 Add to cart*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography*
A vivid, deeply researched work o
*Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award*
*Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography*- Author: Stanley, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1501188526
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Japan: From Mythical Origins to Pop Culture Powerhouse?the Global Drama of an Ancient Island Nation
$16.95 Add to cartZen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games . . . Japanese culture has long enriched our Western way of life. Yet from a Western perspective, Japan remains a remote island country
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Downer, Lesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1891011669
- Language: English
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Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
$30.00 Add to cartACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE YEAR’S 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE WASHINGTON POST – 12 ESSENTIAL NONFICTION BOOKS BY THE NEW YORKER – 100 NOTABLE BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES – BEST BOOKS BY THE ECONOMIST, FOREIGN A… [more below]
- Author: Bass, Gary J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 110197107X
- Language: English
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Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses
$36.00 Add to cartThe first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation an… [more below]
- Series: Embers
- Author: Sheftall, M. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 059347225X
- Language: English
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Geishas and the Floating World: Inside Tokyo’s Yoshiwara Pleasure District
$14.99 Add to cartGeishas and the Floating World returns readers to a lost world of sensuality and seduction, rich with hedonism, abandon, and sexual and personal politics.
“Floating World” refers to Japan’s traditiona- Author: Longstreet, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 4805315431
- Language: English
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Spies in British Controlled Singapore: Policing the Japanese, 1921-1941
$34.95 Add to cartImagine being Japanese, living in Singapore in the nineteen twenties and thirties, suspected by everyone around you of being a spy.
Prior to December 1941, Singapore was the site of a major naval base
- Author: Drea, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 191527172X
- Language: English
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Ninja
$19.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of the ninja, based on a wealth of historical texts, local Japanese sources, and John Man’s own treks across Asia
“An immensely entertaining history, packed with splendidly blood
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0062202650
- Language: English
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Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Two Volumes in One
$19.95 Read moreGlimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a complete, two-volume set of one of the most outstanding books on 19th century Japanese history and culture.
Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books- Series: Tuttle Classics
- Author: Hearn, Lafcadio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 080484755X
- Language: English
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Chushingura: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers, a Puppet Play
$14.94 Add to cartThis book is a puppet play which represents major Asian traditions. A translation of the eighteenth-century Japanese drama.
Chushingura (TheTreasury of Loval Retainers), also known as the story of the
- Author: Keene, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 17 2019
- ISBN10: 168411733X
- Language: English
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History of Japan: A Captivating Guide to Japanese History, Including Events Such as the Genpei War, Mongol Invasions, Battle of Tsushima
$29.99 Add to cartIf 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 woul
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: December 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1647480876
- Language: English
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And the River Flowed as a Raft of Corpses: The Poetry of Yamaguchi Tsutomu, Survivor of Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki
$12.50 Add to cartChad Diehl, a Columbia University doctoral candidate, introduces Raft of Corpses as the first official translation of the tanka poetry of Yamaguchi Tsutomu (1916-2010), a survivor of both atomic bombi… [more below]
- Author: Diehl, Chad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1450712975
- Language: English
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A History of the Samurai: Legendary Warriors of Japan
$17.99 Add to cartA History of the Samurai tells the complete story of Japan’s legendary warrior class from beginning to end–an epic tale of intrigue, bloodshed and bravery that is central to an understanding of the J… [more below]
- Author: Lopez-Vera, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 4805315350
- Language: English
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Japanese Family Crests and Designs
$55.00 Read moreUnderstand Japanese family crest designs with actual examples! A gorgeously visual guide to family crests.
Family crests are coats of arms that have been used in Japan since ancient times to identify f… [more below]
- Author: Hamada, Nobuyoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 4756257267
- Language: English
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Neurotic Beauty: An Outsider Looks at Japan
$27.50 Add to cartNeurotic Beauty is a remarkable reevaluation of Japan’s role in the modern world.
It includes a new assessment of the events leading up to the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, and of the potential r
- Author: Berman, Morris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1621342107
- Language: English
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Japan at War: An Oral History
$39.67 Read moreA “deeply moving book” (Studs Terkel) and the first ever oral history to document the experience of ordinary Japanese people during World War II
“Hereafter no one will be able to think, write, or teach
- Author: Cook, Haruko Taya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 01 1993
- ISBN10: 1565840399
- Language: English
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The Rape of Nanking: The Nanjing Massacre That Occurred during the Second Sino-Japanese War
$25.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Second Sino-Japanese War, then keep reading…
Many people in the West look upon the Second Sino-Japanese War, which took place in the 1930s and 1
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1637163215
- Language: English
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The Japanese Empire
$32.00 Add to cartThe Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and beca… [more below]
- Author: Paine, S. C. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: March 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1107676169
- Language: English
