Japan category: 1648 books
J'étais un Kamikaze
Les révélations d'un pilote de l'Armée de l'Air japonaise
Language: French
Release Date: March 2, 2015
L'histoire poignante de ces pilotes japonais sacrifiés pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale
A l’heure actuelle, il existe encore des hommes et des femmes qui apprennent, jour après jour, les moindres détails de leur mission suicide, et qui se préparent psychologiquement à sacrifier leur...
Ningyo
The Art of the Japanese Doll
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Ningyo: The Art of the Japanese Doll features over 250 unique photographs as well as extensive commentary and background history.
Japanese dolls (ningyo) have played an important role in Japanese art and culture since its earliest stages of development, as talismanic figures, centerpieces,...
Hidden Horrors
Japanese War Crimes in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This landmark book documents little-known wartime Japanese atrocities during World War II. Yuki Tanaka’s case studies, still remarkably original and significant, include cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and...
Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Nuclear Humanities in the Post-Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This edited volume reconsiders the importance of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki from a post-Cold War perspective.
It has been argued that during the Cold War era scholarship was limited by the anxiety that authors felt about the possibility of a global thermonuclear war, and the role...
by Iso Mutsu
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Kamakura: Fact and Legend, has long been the definitive work on Kamakura.
This classic book is the lifetime achievement of Countess Iso Mutsu (née Gertrude Ethel Passingham), a talented, inquisitive Englishwoman who against all odds married a Japanese diplomat at the turn of the century, and...
by Norma Field
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
When the Emperor Hirohito died in 1989, Japanese newspapers had to use a special, exalted word to refer to his death, and had to depict his life uncritically, as one beginning in turbulence but ending in magnificent accomplishment. To do otherwise would have exposed them to terrorism from the vigilant...
Comfort Woman
A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery under the Japanese Military
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
From Comfort Woman:
“We began the day with breakfast, after which we swept and cleaned our rooms. Then we went to the bathroom downstairs to wash the only dress we had and to bathe. The bathroom did not even have a door, so the soldiers watched us. We were all naked, and they laughed at us,...
Une bombe atomique sur Hiroshima
6 août 1945, le jour où tout a basculé
Language: French
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Hiroshima et le début de l’âge nucléaire en moins d’une heure !
Le 6 août 1945, il est 8 h 15 lorsque le pilote d’*Enola Gay* largue une bombe atomique sur Hiroshima. Quelques secondes plus tard, elle explose et provoque un désastre...
Jews & the Japanese
The Successful Outsiders
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
"Few peoples have drawn the 'us' and 'them' line so clearly and maintained it for so long." -From The Jews and the Japanese
It is difficult to imagine two more widely different-almost incompatible-societies than those of the Jews and the Japanese: a people spread over the four corners...
Japanese Wood Cuts
Wood Cuttings from the 1800's
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Japanese wood cuts from the early 1800's Over 30 pages. Take a look at the beauty.
Hong Kong
Becoming a Chinese Global City
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Hong Kong is a small city with a big reputation. As mainland China has become an 'economic powerhouse' Hong Kong has taken a route of development of its own, flourishing as an entrepot and a centre of commerce and finance for Chinese business, then as an industrial city and subsequently a regional...
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Language: Chinese
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: Chinese
Release Date: January 18, 2017
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by Phillips O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2003
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was the first formal agreement of its type reached by a Western 'great' power with a non-Caucasian nation in the modern era. As such, it represented an important milestone diplomatically, strategically and culturally. This book brings together many leading experts who examine...