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The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 170.00This volume is a history of the Japanese drive for the conquest of Greater East Asia. It includes an account of the Malayan campaign and the Fall of Singapore, followed by an outline of the dominant features of the campaign in S E Asia and the Pacific and ending with the attack on Japan and the unconditional surrender. As a prisoner in Tokyo, the... more...
Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 114.00This book explores the historical roots of economic nationalism within Japan. more...
Katana: The Samurai Sword
Osprey Publishing 2011; US$ 14.49The Samurai sword of Japan is probably the finest edged weapon ever made. This volume, written by leading Samurai expert Stephen Turnbull, reveals the story of how and why it achieved this distinction, from the sword's unique metallurgy to its use in combat, where one stroke often decided the victor. Particular attention is paid to the development... more...
The Japanese Economy in the Tokugawa Era, 1600-1868
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 210.00Makes Japanese sources accessible in English Although much of the work on Japanese economic history is inaccessible to Westerners, many of Japan's leading economic historians have published widely in English. Combined with the work of Western economists who can utilize Japanese-language sources, this series assembles a wide range of English-language... more...
Bushido
Tuttle Publishing 2011; US$ 12.95This classic introduction to the chivalric code of honor of the samurai will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in Japanese philosophy, military history, and the samurai era. Inazo Nitobe, a Japanese philosopher writing in eloquent English, outlines the origins of bushido, or the way of the samurai, and shows how the code permeates traditional... more...
Strange But True Stories from Japan
Tuttle Publishing 2011; US$ 14.95Strange But True Stories from Japan is a fascinating collection of vignettes, ranging from historical to the personal. Here you will be exposed to the goings-on of Americans serving time in Japanese prisons and the many who claimed the identity of Tokyo Rose. In this eclectic and, well, strange, book you'll relivefrom a distanceKamakura's... more...
Premodern Japan
Westview Press 1990; US$ 48.00This newly revised volume drawn from Professor Hane?s classic text, Japan: A Historical Survey, presents a rich account of early Japanese history for students. Important elements of early Japanese history persist in present-day Japan more tenaciously than is sometimes realized. Hane traces the key developments of Japanese history in the premodern... more...
The road to victory: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa
Osprey Publishing 2011; US$ 12.99On December 7, 1941, as the Japanese dived out of the clouds above Pearl Harbor, America's future was fundamentally altered. Ever since the first world conflict, the United States had resisted the temptation to be drawn into wars outside of its borders. But with this one surprise attack America was inevitably thrown into the fray as the Second World... more...
People Who Eat Darkness
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012; US$ 15.99Lucie Blackman?tall, blond, twenty-one years old?stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, covered Lucie?s disappearance and followed the massive search... more...
Samurai Commanders (1)
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 14.95Osprey's examination of Samurai commanders during the Gempei Wars (1180–1185), the Onin War (1467–1477), and the early Sengoku period. The samurai were the military elite of medieval and early modern Japan, and the men who led them were hailed as the very greatest, most heroic and most honourable of all samurai warriors. This first... more...









