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Hiroshima in the Morning
The Feminist Press at CUNY 2010; US$ 16.95A writer encounters Hiroshima?s survivors at the original Ground Zero as 9/11 changes her marriage and family back home. more...
Tokyo, My Everest
Dundurn 1995; US$ 9.99Gabrielle Bauer finds herself on a plane bound for Tokyo, leaving her career, home, and husband behind. more...
Japan-Bashing
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00The aim of this book is to examine and analyse the phenomenon of ?Japan-bashing?, from its invention and popularisation in the United States in the late 1970s to the emergence of other national variants, including in Australia and Japan, to its gradual decline in the late 1990s. It is the first major book-length study of ?Japan-bashing from a multinational... more...
Japan-Africa Relations
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00Japan-Africa Relations seeks to study the complex nature of the dynamics of power relations between Japan and Africa since the Bandung Conference in 1955, with an emphasis on the period starting from the 1970s up to the present. more...
Tropics of Savagery
University of California Press 2010; US$ 55.00Tropics of Savagery is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of ?savagery? in Japanese colonial culture. Through a rigorous analysis of literary works, ethnographic studies, and a variety of other discourses, Robert Thomas Tierney demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed its own identity in relation both to the West and to... more...
A Prophetic Peace
Indiana University Press 2011; US$ 22.95Challenging deeply held convictions about Judaism, Zionism, war, and peace, Alick Isaacs's combat experience in the second Lebanon war provoked him to search for a way of reconciling the belligerence of religion with its messages of peace. In his insightful readings of the texts of Biblical prophecy... more...
Pure Land Buddhism in Modern Japanese Culture
BRILL 2008; US$ 177.00Focusing on one of the most influential religious traditions in Japan, Pure Land Buddhism, this book offers a survey of its impact on mainstream forms of art in modern and contemporary Japan more...
Political Thought in Japanese Historical Writing
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 48.95It was only at the onset of the Tokugawa period (1602-1868) that formal political thought emerged in Japan. Prior to that time Japanese scholars had concentrated, rather, on questions of legitimacy and authority in historical writing., producing a stream of works. Brownlee's illuminating study describes twenty of these important historical works... more...
At Home in Japan
Tuttle Publishing 2011; US$ 21.95At Home in Japan tells the true story of a foreign woman who has been, for 30 years, the housewife, custodian and chatelaine of a 350-year-old farmhouse in rural Japan. This astonishing book traces a circular path, from the basic physical details of life in the house and village, through relationships with family, neighbors and the natural and supernatural... more...
The Rough Guide to Japan
Rough Guides 2011; US$ 28.99Perfectly navigate one of the world?s most fascinating countries with the award-winning Rough Guide to Japan . This opinionated guide is packed with essential information on everything from the latest and best places to sleep, eat, party and shop to pointers on etiquette and sustainable travel. All the major and many off the beaten track sights are... more...









