Japan category: 1648 books
Heritage Conservation and Japan's Cultural Diplomacy
Heritage, National Identity and National Interest
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Japan’s heritage conservation policy and practice, as deployed through its foreign aid programs, has become one of the main means through which post-World War II Japan has sought to mark its presence in the international arena, both globally and regionally. Heritage conservation has been intimately...
Japan Extolled and Decried
Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775-1776
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This edition makes available once again Thunberg’s extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations, a full introduction and annotations. Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of Linnaeus – of the great fathers of modern science – spent eighteen fascinating months in the notoriously...
Coal-Mining Women in Japan
Heavy Burdens
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
In the years Bbetween the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and the beginning of the war mobilization boom in 1930, collieries in Europe and America embraced new technologies and had long since been excluded women from working underground. In Japan, however, mining women witnessed no significant changes in...
by Martin Goldsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Everybody I have spoken to agrees that Japan is interesting. This ebook is your ticket for a Virtual Trip to Japan. It is about Japan and the Japanese, and not just their museums and temples. The links for each topic are to videos published in English in the internet.
This virtual trip starts with...
Japan in the World
Shidehara Kijuro, Pacifism, and the Abolition of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
The twentieth century is as remarkable for its world wars as it is for its efforts to outlaw war in international and constitutional law and politics. Japan in the World examines some of these efforts through the life and work of Shidehara Kijuro, who was active as diplomat and statesman between 1896...
Law in Everyday Japan
Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Lawsuits are rare events in most people's lives. High-stakes cases are even less commonplace. Why is it, then, that scholarship about the Japanese legal system has focused almost exclusively on epic court battles, large-scale social issues, and corporate governance? Mark D. West's Law in Everyday...
Was Sie dachten, NIEMALS über JAPAN wissen zu wollen
55 erleuchtende Einblicke in ein ganz anderes Land
Language: German
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Sushi, Godzilla, strahlende Atomkraftwerke und gebrauchte Damenwäsche aus Automaten – skurrile Gerüchte und bizarre Vorurteile gibt es über das Inselreich am Rande des Pazifiks wahrlich genug. Was allerdings die Wenigsten wissen: Die japanische Realität ist von all dem gar nicht weit entfernt....
Lafcadio Hearn's Japan
An Anthology of his Writings on the Country and it's People
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
This collection of writings from Lafcaido Hern paints a rare and fascinating picture of pre-modern Japan
Over a century after his death, author, translator, and educator Lafcaido Hearn remains one of the best-known Westerners ever to make Japan his home. Almost more Japanese than the Japanese—"to...
by Bill Mutranowski
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Anyone who spends even a little time in Japan will have a few good stories to tell when they get back home.
But rubbing elbows with the Japanese, on their own turf, is good for more than just a laugh. The experience can give you a lot of insight into yourself. And that's not the kind of thing...
Japan Unmasked
The Character & Culture of the Japanese
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
The growing globalization of world business, culture and communication—and Japan's increasingly important role as a leader in that world—makes understanding Japanese culture critical for business people, diplomats, students, educators and anyone else with an interest in Japan.
Westerners...
Holy Anime!
Japan's View of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Christianity has been in Japan for five centuries, but embraced by less than one percent of the population. It’s a complicated relationship, given the sudden appearance in Japan of Renaissance Catholicism which was utterly unlike the historic faiths of Shinto and Buddhism; Japan had to invent a...
Japan
A Reinterpretation
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The Japanese are in the process of re-creating themselves--an endeavor they have undertaken at intervals throughout history, always prompted by a combination of domestic and global forces. In this landmark book, Patrick Smith asserts that a variety of forces--the achievement of material affluence,...
Traveler's Paradise - Japan
Travel Guide for Fukuoka, Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo & Tokyo
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
**Are you looking forward to a trip to Japan? ****Is it a country that you have always wanted to visit? **Do you need some advice before going?
Japan is a country with an ancient culture, wrapped around a modern and technologically advanced infrastructure. It is a land that is packed with...
Kansai Cool
A Journey into the Cultural Heartland of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
In Kansai Cool anthropologist, writer and filmmaker Christal Whelan offers profound insights in the only collection of essays to focus on Kansai, Japan's ancient heartland.
Kansai—the region in Western Japan that boasts the ancient capitals of Kyoto and Nara, the bustling commercial city...