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Embracing Defeat

by John W Dower

Drawing on a vast range of sources, from manga comics to MacArthur's report to Congress, this monumental new work by America's foremost historian of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. Alongside the familiar story of economic resurgence, Dower examines how the nation as a whole reacted to the contradictory experiences of humiliation at the hands of a foreign power and liberation from the demands of a suicidal nationalism. The result is a... Read more about this item

The Rising Sun

by John Toland

John Toland was one of the most widely read military historians of the twentieth century. His many books include The Last 100 Days; Ships in the Sky; Battle: The Story of the Bulge; But Not in Shame; Adolf Hitler; and No Man’s Land. Originally from Wisconsin, he lived in Connecticut for many years with his wife.

Bushido

by Nitobe Inazo

Bushido, often translated as Way of the Warrior, came from the Samurai way of life and moral code. It emphasized loyalty, skill, moderation and honor, and became a widespread influence throughout Japan. In Shogakukan Kokugo Daijiten, the Japanese dictionary, "Bushido is defined as a unique philosophy (ronri) that spread through the warrior class from the Muromachi (chusei) period." Nitobe Inazo, in his book Bushido: The Soul of Japan, described it in this way. "...Bushido, then, is the code of moral... Read more about this item

Hirohito and The Making Of Modern Japan

by Herbert P Bix

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix shows what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine... Read more about this item

Samurai

by Stephen Turnbull

Stephen Turnbull took his first degree at Cambridge University, and received a PhD from Leeds University for his work on Japanese religious history. He has travelled extensively in Europe and the Far East and also runs a well-used picture library. His work has been recognised by the awarding of the Canon Prize of the British Association for Japanese Studies and a Japan Festival Literary Award. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of... Read more about this item

Samurai William

by Giles Milton

With all the adventure, derring-do, and bloodcurdling battle scenes of his earlier book, Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, acclaimed historian Giles Milton dazzles readers with the true story of William Adams—the first Englishman to set foot in Japan (and the inspiration for James Clavell’s bestselling novel Shogun). Beginning with Adams’s startling letter to the East India Company in 1611—more than a decade after he’d arrived in Japan—Samurai William chronicles the first... Read more about this item

The Making Of Modern Japan

by Marius B Jansen

A sweeping history of modern Japan begins in 1600 and retraces the three major upheavals in Japanese history that have helped shape it into a modern Asian nation.

The World Of the Shining Prince

by Ivan Morris

Ivan Morris studied Japanese language and culture at Harvard University while serving in the Intelligence Section of the U.S. Navy Reserves. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1951, he worked for the Far East Section of the BBC as well as for the Japan and Pacific departments of the British Foreign Office. He lived in Tokyo for several years, writing, lecturing, and teaching. In 1960 he joined what would later be renamed the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at... Read more about this item

Haiku

by R H Blyth

Transactions Of the Asiatic Society Of Japan

by Asiatic Society Of Japan

Legend In Japanese Art

by Henri L Joly

Meeting With Japan

by Fosco Maraini

The Art Of Arranging Flowers

by Shozo Sato

Zen and Japanese Culture

by Daisetz T Suzuki

Recipes

by Time-Life Books

Japan's Imperial Conspiracy

by David Bergamini

Recipes

by Time Life Books

Japanese Pilgrimage

by Oliver Statler

Japan

by Lafcadio Hearn

Japanese Aircraft Of the Pacific War

by Rene J Francillon

Japan

The Fall Of Japan

by William Craig

Masterpieces Of Japanese Screen Painting

by Miyeko Murase

Japan Books & Ephemera

The Japanese Nation a Social Survey

by John F Embree

Japan

by Langer, Paul F

Japanese Mind

by Christopher, Robert C

Saibara: Japanese Court Songs of the Heian Period. 2 vols. [complete]

by Markham, Elizabeth

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 2 vols. index, xx, 411, viii, 388p. Original binding. djs. 25cm. Vol. One, Text; Vol. Two, Music.

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CA$311.18

Among the Figures: A Perspective on Contemporary Art: September 22-November 8 1992, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, December 12, 1992-January 31, 1993, the National Museum of Art, Osaka ..

by Motoe, Kunio, [and others], essays

Tokyo: National Museum of Art, 1992. Paperback. Near Fine. color illustrations, 141p. Softcover in original wrappers. 28 cm. Text in Japanese and also selectively in English.

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CA$62.24

Japanese Schooling: Patterns of Socialization, Equality, and Political Control

by Shields, James J.; Editor

University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Gray cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 294pp., not illustrated. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ shows hint of shelfwear, now in archival mylar wrap.

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CA$89.90

Engishiki kenkyu = Studies for the Engishiki. Vol. [or No.] 1 (1976)

n..p., 1976. Paperback. Very Good. 105p. (many folding). Softcover in original blue wrapper. 26cm. Japanese text; brief summary in English on two unnumbered leaves at end. We don't know how often or how long this unusual periodical was published.

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CA$55.32

Japan Pictorial (1947)

by Kobayashi, Minoru, ed

(Tokyo): Japan Travel Bureau, 1947. Wraps. Good. 12 x 8.5 inches, wraps with spiral binding, good with wear to covers, small corner loss, contents very good, inscription inside front cover dated 1947 and with "Lt. Bernice Shine" in pencil on cover -- Shine joined the WACs in 1943 and spent three years in Germany and two years in Japan. When she came back to Pittsburgh she worked for the Sun Telegraph as a writer. About 125 pp, photos throughout.

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CA$34.58

Mono to Onna" No Sengoshi... Postwar history of "things and women" with a focus on physicality, domesticity and sociality

by Masako Amano; Atsushi Sakurai

Tokyo: Yushindo, 1992. Wraps. Very good/very good. Wraps in dust jacket, very good. 260 pp. On Japanese women's issues.

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CA$20.74

The Year Book of Japanese Art 1929-1930

Tokyo: National Commitee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations Association of Japan, 1930. Hardcover. Good. xvi, 176p. plus 98 plates. Original cloth backed boards. 26cm. Cover soiling. Backstrip frayed at ends. Contents sound. No jacket.

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CA$34.58

Map of Japan.

by [JAPAN & TAIWAN - MAP] OKISHIO, TAKACHIKA

Kobe, Japan.: Fuku-In-Kwan.. 1906.. Printed colour folding map on two conjoined sheets, laid down, 73.8 x 105 cms, foxing on verso (not affecting map), single pinhole in each corner, scant spotting, small fold splits (no loss), a few soft fold creases, but in good condition. Very rare striking map of Japan published for the Western market. Created under the direction of Takachika Okishio featuring 10 inset maps: Chishima (Kurile Islands), Hokushu (Hokkaido), Ogasawara-Jima (Bonin Islands),... Read more about this item

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CA$2,034.00

Inexorable Modernity: Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts

by Nara, Hiroshi; Editor

Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. Hardcover. Near fine. Glossy illustrated paper covered boards, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book has hint of shelfwear, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, feels unread. No DJ.

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CA$41.49

A large photograph album of Japanese origin and Korean War vintage, with the lacquered front cover extensively hand-decorated in colour

by [Japan and Korea]

Maps of the four main islands of Japan and the Korean Peninsula are surrounded by borders of cherry blossom and bamboo, with scenes of Mt Fuji, a pagoda, and birds on the wing. Major cities are shown on the maps; Korea has Pyongyang, Seoul and Pusan, with '38° LINE' in a much larger font across the centre. The album (275 × 390 mm) contains three series of commercially produced small photographic views loosely inserted behind photo-corners (40 hand-coloured views of Japan; 56 black and white views of... Read more about this item

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CA$678.00

The New Religions of Japan

by Harry Thomsen

Charles E. Tuttle, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. 269 pages. Ex-university library book, sunned cover and spine, pages lightly yellowed; a good solid reading copy. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theology & Religion; Inventory No: 208071. .

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CA$8.30

Nipponalia: Books on Japan in European Languages in the Library of Kyoto University of Foreign Studies

by Kyoto Gaikokugo Daigaku. Toshokan

[Kyoto]: Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine. xlvi, 326p. Original plum-colored binding. 26cm. Cover slightly warped. Minor rubbing. No jacket.

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CA$311.18

Shashinshu kichi Okinawa =Okinawa of the Original Image - Conflict Between the Inside and the Outside

by Kuniyoshi, Kazuo

Naha-shi; Shimonoseki-shi: Niraisha; Hatsubaimoto Shin Nihon Ky iku Tosho Kabushiki Kaisha, 1987. Shohan [First edition]. Paperback. Fine in fine jacket with fine paper head band. See photos. As new./new. Quarto in pale blue photo illus jacket; red printed paper band; 142 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm . Chiefly black & white photos. Text in Japanese. Okinawa and US military pressence in the 1970s and 1980s. Excellent photographhy, mainly in black & white. Military bases, American -- Japan --... Read more about this item

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CA$56.70

Resume of the Controversy Between Japan and the United States Arising Out of the California Question / Kashu mondai ni kansuru nichibei kosho tenmatsu

by [Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade] Gaimusho tsushokyoku daisanka

[Tokyo]: Gaimusho tsushokyoku daisanka, 1920. First Edition. A bilingual pamphlet detailing the origins of and the official Japanese response to the 1913 Alien Land Law passed in California. The law prohibited foreigners who were not eligible to obtain citizenship from purchasing land or entering into leases longer than three years. It applied almost entirely to Asian immigrants, who were barred from becoming naturalized American citizens. This book opens with a brief introduction and the text of the... Read more about this item

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CA$2,489.40

Katsura, Un ermitage princier

by Naito, Akira; Takeshi Nishikawa

Fribourg, Switzerland: Office du Livre, 1978. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First French language edition of "Katsura, A Princely Retreat" published by Kodansha. Oblong folio, publisher's cloth in dust jacket, very good, light foxing or spottiness to top edge of boards and text block, light foxing to half title page, some bumping to lower outer corner of the pages, else a lovely copy, in original thin tan cardboard slipcase which shows light wear and bumping. Laid in folding map of... Read more about this item

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CA$66.38

UKIYO-E--EDO TO HAKOME: Signed by Mr. Tsuneo and Includes a Signed Typed Letter to the Recipient in the United States

by Tamba, Tsuneo

Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1963. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Folio 13" - 23" tall; Original tissue guard around the dust jacket. Contained in a very good plus folding cardboard box. Signed by the author in the rear and has a small typed note indicating who the recipient is. Also has the TLS from the author to the recipient, a Mr. Preston Woolf of Indianapolis, IN. From the Author's note: "the illustrations, drawn entirely from ukiyo-e prints and paintings in the... Read more about this item

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CA$449.48

Architectural Rendering 1 - New Office Design

by n/a

1990. Paperback. Very Good. Softcover. c.1990. 4to. 151pp. Profusely illustrated in full-color. Text in English and Japanese. Very Good. light general shelfwear, mild soil. Contents unmarked.

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CA$19.92

[天保壬寅元暦].[Tenpō jin'in genreki]. [Japanese Lunisolar Calendar 1861].

by [MIYAZAKI, SAKON]. 宮崎左近

伊勢)度会郡山田.. 文久元[1861].. Black and white woodblock printed, accordion style binding, decorative paper wrappers. A Japanese lunisolar calendar 文久二年 (1862) published in 文久元年 (1861). Covers insect damaged and stained in places, a little loss along blank upper margin first and last leaf, light browning, otherwise very good. Text in Japanese. 29.1 x 20.4cm. An interesting old Japanese... Read more about this item

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CA$203.40

Japanese Envoys in Britain. 1862-1964.

by NISH, IAN

Folkestone.: Global Oriental Ltd.. 2007.. Black and white photographic plates, 255pp. Hardback in dustjacket. Commissioned by the Japan Society as the companion volume to "British Envoys in Japan, 1859-1972" , this collection of essays on a century of official Japanese representation in the UK completes the history of bilateral diplomatic relations up to the mid-1960s, concluding with Ambassador Ohno Katsumi's 6-year assignment in London in 1964. .

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CA$40.68

Geisha

by Dalby, Liza

Barcelona.: Mondadori., 2000.. Hardcover. Good. 25 cm. 320 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Traducción, Elena Recasens Pons. Las mil y una voces. Traducción de: Geisha . ISBN: 8439705530 Literatura inglesa. Novela. Siglo XX. (821.111(73)-31"19") [[821.111-3]]

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CA$8.68

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio

by Hsia, Linda and Roger Yeu

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very good+. Fourth printing, 1972, hardcover with gilt stamped red cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 103pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with mild wear to boards, binding tight, endpapers gently off-set, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ VG+ with mild toning and foxing, hint of edgewear. Text in Japanese and English.

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CA$34.58

Daughters of the Moon: Wish, Will, and Social Constraint in Fiction by Modern Japanese Women [Japan Research Monograph 9]

by Vernon, Victoria V

Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies/University of California, 1988. Paperback. Very good+. Printed paper wraps, octavo, not illustrated. Book has mild toning and rubbing to wraps, faint crease to rear bottom corner, binding tight, small red chop mark on title page from Helen Hopper, author of works on Japanese feminism and female leaders, errata sheet laid in, text clean and unmarked, with foxing to top edge of block.