Japan category: 1648 books
by Ooi Keat Gin
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
The Japanese occupation of both British Borneo – Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo – and Dutch Borneo in 1941 to 1945 is a much understudied subject. Of particular interest is the occupation of Dutch Borneo, governed by the Imperial Japanese Navy that had long-term plans for ‘permanent possession’....
by Michael Pronko
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Motions and Moments: More Essays on Tokyo
Motions and Moments is the third book by Michael Pronko on the fluid feel and vibrant confusions of Tokyo life. These 42 new essays burrow into the unique intensities that suffuse the city and ponder what they mean to its millions of inhabitants.
Based...
Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History
Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Regionalism has played an increasingly important role in the changing international relations of East Asia in recent decades, with early signs of integration and growing regional cooperation. This in-depth volume analyzes various historical approaches to the construction of a regional order and a...
by Judith Brand
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Tokyo Night City will take you on a trek through the previously unmapped maze of Tokyo's myriad bars, clubs, and dives. Cool jazz clubs, Latin salsa, throbbing house, and reggae bars, Tokyo Night City has the place for every mood and every pocket and includes:
The latest information on drinks,...
I AM ALIVE!
A United States Marine's Story of Survival in a World War II Japanese POW Camp
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
The postcard came with the words Imperial Japanese Army printed at the top. On it were written three simple words: I AM ALIVE! And with this, Charles R. Jacksons wife knew that her husband, a US Marine Sergeant Major, had survived the Japanese capture of Corregidor and could only hope he would continue...
Reinventing the Tripitaka
Transformation of the Buddhist Canon in Modern East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
The Chinese Buddhist canon is a systematic collection of all translated Buddhist scriptures and related literatures created in East Asia and has been regarded as one of the “three treasures” in Buddhist communities. Despite its undisputed importance in the history of Buddhism, research on this...
Japanese Dolls
The fascinating World of Ningyo
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Japanese Dolls: The Fascinating World of Ningyo, is a wealth of information for Japanese art collectors, Asian doll collectors and doll enthusiasts of all levels and interests.
Full of beautiful photographs, the book details 18 kinds of widely collected, obtainable and affordable, antique and...
Okinawan Martial Traditions Vol. 1.1
Te, Tode, Karate, Karatedo, Kobudo
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
NOTE: Volume 1 of the print edition was dividend into Vols. 1.1 and 1.2 to make two e-book editions.
What would you like to obtain from your research and practice of an Okinawan martial art? For an academic, it would be to obtain historical and cultural facts and...
Okinawan Martial Traditions Vol. 2.1
Te, Tode, Karate, Karatedo, Kobudo
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
NOTE: Volume 2 of the print edition was dividend into Vols. 2.1 and 2.2 to make two e-book editions.
What would you like to obtain from your research and practice of an Okinawan martial art? For an academic, it would be to obtain historical and cultural facts and...
by Insight Guides
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Explore iconic cities afresh. Been there, done that? Want a more authenticexperience? Then this stylish Insight guides Experience Tokyo isfor you. Fromseeing un-missable top attractions like the Imperial Palace from a newperspective, to discovering hidden gems like Hamarikyu Garden, this innovativebook...
Nagasaki
Life After Nuclear War
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
On August 9th, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
It killed a third of the population instantly, and the survivors, or hibakusha, would be affected by the life-altering medical conditions caused by the radiation for the rest of their lives. They were also marked with the stigma of their...
Interpreting the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal
A Sociopolitical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
In order to ensure its absolute authority, the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal (1946–1948), the Japanese counterpart of the Nuremberg Trial, adopted a three-tier structure for its interpreting: Japanese nationals interpreted the proceedings, second-generation Japanese-Americans monitored the interpreting,...