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A Lateral View
Stone Bridge Press 1992; US$ 16.95A revealing look at the Japanese through the window of their contemporary culture. more...
War and State Building in Medieval Japan
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 20.95This book introduces to statebuilding literature the case of Japan, demonstrating the ways in which farmer negotiations with warlords formed the bedrock of a medieval economy that enabled the consolidation of the state. more...
Japan
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 95.00This volume focuses on an often misunderstood nation with vast economic and cultural influence in the United States and around the world. It combines thoroughly up-to-date coverage of JapanÕs history, geography, politics, economics, and society, with a range of helpful reference tools.||Delving deeper than typical reference books, Asia in Focus:... more...
Daily Life in Japan
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 122.00From the tenth century onwards the emperors of Japan gradually lost power. The local lords or clan chiefs waged ceaseless war against each other, while the court, wholly steeped in Chinese culture, seemed to take no further interest in the affairs of the nation. In 1191 the Minamoto clan mastered the disturbances and finally imposed its rule. Hard... more...
The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 159.00This 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...
Global Security Watch?Japan
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 50.00This book offers a comprehensive overview of Japan's national security institutions and policy today, including a detailed discussion of Japan's regional security environment and its alliance with the United States in the context of the Democratic Party of Japan's rise to power in August 2009. more...
Rice as Self
Princeton University Press 1994; US$ 31.95Are we what we eat? What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others? Why do people have a strong attachment to their own cuisine and an aversion to the foodways of others? In this engaging account of the crucial significance rice has for the Japanese, Rice as Self examines how people use the metaphor of... more...
With Respect to the Japanese
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2010; US$ 24.95The second edition of With Respect to the Japanese discusses the salient features of Japanese values and behaviors and contrasts them with the values and characteristics of Americans while examining the cultural differences in decision-making, rhetoric, management styles, behavior in the workplace and much more. It examines the critical elements of... more...
Diaspora without Homeland
University of California Press 2009; US$ 29.95More than one-half million people of Korean descent reside in Japan today?the largest ethnic minority in a country often assumed to be homogeneous. This timely, interdisciplinary volume blends original empirical research with the vibrant field of diaspora studies to understand the complicated history, identity, and status of the Korean minority in... more...
The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720 - 1830
Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 122.00Originally published in 1952, this account of the growth and uses of Western learning in Japan has been enlarged by two new chapters that extend the story from 1798 to 1830. The author has incorporated the results of recent research by scholars in Japan and the West and made corrections in the text. more...









