Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...

Japan eBooks

If you like Japan eBooks, then you'll love these top picks.
Showing 1 - 24 of 2053 Results
Skip side bar filters
  • The First to Cry Down Injustice?

    Western Jews and Japanese Removal During WWII

    by Eisenberg ...
    The First to Cry Down Injustice explores the range of responses from Jews in the Pacific West to the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. While it is often assumed that American Jews_because of a commitment to fighting prejudice_would have taken a position against this discriminatory policy, the treatment of Japanese Americans was largely ignored by national Jewish groups ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Art, Life & Nature in Japan

    The artistic and philosophical heritage of Japan has a special meaning for the modern world. During the present century, Japanese thought and Japanese art have exerted a strong influence on the western mind. Art, Life, and Nature in Japan takes us to the roots of Japanese culture and the origins of this influence.In this brief but deeply meaningful book Masaharu Anesaki provides a panoramic view ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • E.H. Norman

    His Life and Scholarship

    Edited by Roger Bowen ...
    Series series Heritage
    The ashes of Herbert Norman now lie in the British cemetery at Rome, near those of Shelley and Keats. His distinguished life and tragic death, in April 1957, are recalled and examined in this book by scholars and diplomats from four countries—the United States, Japan, Canada, and Britain.Born in rural Japan the son of a Canadian missionary, Herbert Norman studied at the University of Toronto and ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Japanese Imperialism, 1894-1945

    by W. G. Beasley ...
    Series series Clarendon Paperbacks
    This is a study of the origins and nature of Japanese imperialism from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895 through to 1945. Japan is the only Asian country in modern times to have built both a successful industrial economy and an empire, and it is Professor Beasley's contention that these two phenomena are closely related. Japan's aims were influenced by its experience of western imperialism and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD $44.99 USD

  • Postmodernism and Japan

    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Postmodernism and Japan is a coherent yet diverse study of the dynamics of postmodernism, as described by Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Guatarri, from the often startling perspective of a society bent on transforming itself into the image of Western “enlightenment” wealth and power. This work provides a unique view of a society in transition and confronting, like its models in the West, the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Sho Japanese Calligraphy

    An In-Depth Introduction to the Art of Writing Characters

    Master calligrapher Christopher Earnshaw illuminates the techniques, history and philosophy of calligraphy with over 300 illustrations in Sho: Japanese Calligraphy. Calligraphy, along with poetry and painting, has been for centuries a discipline that all students of culture had to master. Brush writing reflected inner character, and many great masters of calligraphy were respected Zen priests, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Japan Diary

    by Mark Gayn ...
    This book is an eyewitness report of what happened in Japan and Korea during the Occupation years from December 1945 to May 1948.It is also meant to be some other things. It is the story of that extraordinary figure General Douglas MacArthur, and the men around him. It is the story of the way American foreign polity operated in one segment of the globe and of the plot and counterplot that went on ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Hermann Roesler and the Making of the Meiji State

    That Imperial Japan closely resembled authoritarian Germany was no simple coincidence. This book explores the effect of German thought on nineteenth century Japan, focusing on Hermann Roesler-the most influential collaborator.The Meiji leadership was committed to an authoritarian form of government. At the same time it was also clearly committed to a constitutional system. The mid and late 1880's ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Mingei: Japan's Enduring Folk Arts

    Explore Japanese folk art--called mingei--with this beautifully illustrated book.Mingei literally means the "arts of the people" and is a treasured expression of Japanese culture and history. This book of Japanese folk art introduces 116 exquisite and interesting Japanese pieces, describing their origins, showing how they are made and used, and relating the background of myth and folklore ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Japanese Music & Musical Instruments

    This interesting and authoritative book includes essential facts about the various forms of Japanese music and musical instruments and their place in the overall history of Japan.Japanese Music and Musical Instruments has three main orientations:The history of Japanese musicConstruction of the instrumentsAnalysis of the music itself.The book covers in a lucidly written text and a wealth of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Japanese Woodblock Prints in Miniature: The Genre of Surimon

    by Kurt Meissner ...
    With dozens of classic miniature Japanese woodblock prints and informative text, this Japanese art book is an essential for print collectors.Of the many genres of ukio-e, perhaps the least known is that of the diminutive surimono produced by Utamaro, Kiyonaga, Hokusai, Hiroshige, and others. They were the small, relatively little-known woodblock prints of the Tokugawa era, produced in smaller ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Romance of the Milky Way

    and Other Studies and Stories

    This delightful book presents seven pieces from the rich heritage of Lafcadio Hearn--one of the first and most preeminent scholars to travel to and write about Japan. They are a natural outgrowth of Hearn's peerless philosophy: "If you have any feeling--no matter what--strongly latent in the mind (even only a haunting sadness or a mysterious joy), you may be sure that it is expressible."Hearn's ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Chichibu

    Explore the Japanese city of Chichibu--a bastion of traditional Japanese customs--with this fascinating Japan travel guide.This is the first English guide to one of Japan's best-kept secrets, an idyllic haven of temples, shrines, and serene hills only a short train ride from the heart of Tokyo. Chichibu, a quiet basin enclosed by steep hills, is an area that evokes the charm and beauty of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Condition Green Tokyo 1970

    by Neil Goble ...
    Condition Green: Tokyo was the warning posted almost daily at the gates of U.S. bases in Japan during May, 1960, when the US-Japan Security Treaty was revised and extended. Communist-led riots and demonstrations opposed to the treaty made it unsafe for Americans on the streets of Tokyo. Homes were burned, autos overturned, government offices ransacked. Americans were attacked, a leading politician ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Japan in the World

    Since the end of World War II, Japan has determinately remained outside the current of world events and uninvolved in the processes determining global history and politics. In Japan and the World, distinguished scholars, novelists, and intellectuals articulate how Japan—despite unprecedented economic prowess in securing dominance in the world's market—is caught in a complex dependency with the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Road to Delhi

    by M. Sivaram ...
    Although the peaceful struggles of Mahatma Gandhi are well known in the West, the armed resistance of many Indians during World War II is far less understood; this epic drama ads an important layer to the history of India and the British Empire.The east Asian battlefronts serve as the backgrounds for this story of the attempt by patriotic Indians to drive the British out of their Motherland and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Children of the Atomic Bomb

    An American Physician’s Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands

    Series series Asia-Pacific, culture, politics, and society
    Despite familiar images of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and the controversy over its fiftieth anniversary, the human impact of those horrific events often seems lost to view. In this uncommon memoir, Dr. James N. Yamazaki tells us in personal and moving terms of the human toll of nuclear warfare and the specific vulnerability of children to the effects of these weapons. Giving voice to ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Diary of Lady Murasaki

    The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese imperial palace - the auspicious birth of a prince, rivalries between the Emperor's consorts, with sharp criticism of Murasaki's fellow ladies-in-waiting ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Japan Land of Beauty & Tradition

    by Philip Sandoz ...
    This Japan travel guide features dozens of beautiful photographs and insightful commentary.Japan: Land of Beauty and Tradition takes the reader on a sweeping tour of this always enticing and often surprising country. From the gaudy exuberance of the Sensoji temple to the tranquility of Ryoanji's stone garden, from Kyushu's tropical shores to Hokkaido's arctic slopes, from rice fields and iris ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Beautiful Japan

    A Souvenir

    by Leza Lowitz ...
    This beautifully photographed Japan travel pictorial features all the most famous sites in Japan along with extensive notes and even maps.Shop along tree-lined streets filled with exclusive boutiques, stroll in ancient temple grounds, strike a business deal on the thirty-second floor of a chrome-and-glass skyscraper, get swept up in the crowds, or sip sake with newfound friends in a bustling ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Trades and Crafts of Old Japan

    Leaves from a Contemporary Album

    This very rare series of Japanese paintings depicts everyday artisans in feudal Japan. Extensive commentary provides insight into the historical and cultural context of the scenes.More than three centuries ago, not long after Japan had entered the period of seclusion decreed by her Tokugawa rulers, an unknown artist, or perhaps a group of artists, painted a series of pictures for an album ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Taming of the Samurai

    Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan

    by Eiko Ikegami ...
    Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic accessible to us through a sweeping investigation into the roots of Japanese organizational structures. She accomplishes this by focusing on the diverse roles that the samurai have played in Japanese history. From their rise in ancient Japan, through their dominance as warrior ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War

    by George Hicks ...
    "The most extensive record available in English of the ugly story."—Elisabeth Rubinfein, New York NewsdayOver 100,000 women across Asia were victims of enforced prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Forces during World War II. Until as recently as 1993 the Japanese government continued to deny this shameful aspect of its wartime history. George Hicks's book is the only history in English regarding ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Still Life and Other Stories

    by Junzo Shono ...
    Translated by Wayne P. Lammers ...
    Series series Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature
    "Shono conveys both intimacy and distance, tranquility and tension, as he explores the shifting relations between husband and wife, father and son, brother and sister." -Publishers Weekly"These stories are so artful... they seem like the artless productions of life itself." -Kenyon College Book Review -- Kenyon College Book Review"This collection should be sipped and savored like warm sake." ... Read more

    $8.99 USD