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  • An Armchair Traveller's History of Tokyo

    Series series Armchair Traveller's History
    With almost 13 million residents, Tokyo is now as much an icon of modernity as it is a city, with its neon-lit billboards, futuristic technology, and avant-garde fashion scene. But the long and fascinating history of Japan’s modern capital encompasses much, much more, and in An Armchair Traveller’s History of Tokyo, Jonathan Clements sketches the city’s amazing trajectory from its humble ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Gossamer Years

    The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan

    Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu.This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship as it reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses.Too impetuous to be ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Shinto

    A History

    Distinguished scholar of Japanese religions and culture Helen Hardacre offers the first comprehensive history of Shinto, the ancient and vibrant tradition whose colorful rituals are still practiced today. Under the ideal of Shinto, a divinely descended emperor governs through rituals offered to deities called Kami. These rituals are practiced in innumerable shrines across the realm, so that local ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Invitation-Only Zone

    The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project

    A bizarre, little-known tale about the most secretive culture on earthFor decades, North Korea denied any part in the disappearance of dozens of Japanese citizens from Japan’s coastal towns and cities in the late 1970s. But in 2002, with his country on the brink of collapse, Kim Jong-il admitted to the kidnapping of thirteen people and returned five of them in hopes of receiving Japanese aid. As ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Manhattan Project

    The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    by Al Cimino ...
    The ramifications of the Manhattan Project are still with us to this day. The atomic bombs that came out of it brought an end to the war in the Pacific, but at a heavy loss of life in Japan and the opening of a Pandora's box that has tested international relations.This book traces the history of the Manhattan Project, from the first glimmerings of the possibility of such a catastrophic weapon to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • War without Mercy

    Race and Power in the Pacific War (NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER)

    by John Dower ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A monumental history that has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.”In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Geishas and the Floating World

    Inside Tokyo's Yoshiwara Pleasure District

    Geishas and the Floating World returns readers to a lost world of sensuality and seduction, rich with hedonism, abandon, and sexual and personal politics."Floating World" refers to Japan's traditional Geisha pleasure districts, but also to the artistic and literary worlds associated with them. At the heart of the "Floating World" and the system it supported was an extensive network of talented ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Musashi

    An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

    Translated by Charles Terry ...
    The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman.Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai—without really knowing what it meant—he regains consciousness after the battle to find himself lying defeated, dazed and wounded among thousands ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Conquest Of Okinawa: An Account Of The Sixth Marine Division

    Contains numerous maps.One of a series of monographs prepared by the Historical Division that deals with the activities of Marine Corps units in World War II, this monograph is the work of Captain Carleton. While on Okinawa he lived with the men of the Sixth Marine Division, watched them fight and listened to their accounts of the action. He was with the Twenty Ninth Marines on Motobu Peninsula, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nagasaki

    Life After Nuclear War

    “[A] reminder of just how horrible nuclear weapons are.”—The Wall Street Journal**“A devastating read that highlights man’s capacity to wreak destruction, but in which one also catches a glimpse of all that is best about people.”—San Francisco Chronicle“A poignant and complex picture of the second atomic bomb’s enduring physical and psychological tolls. Eyewitness accounts are visceral and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • The Secrets of Mariko

    A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family

    With Bumiller's intimate, beautifully written portrait of a middle-class Tokyo housewife, readers finally penetrate the mysteries of the Japanese people to see how they differ from us, and how they are alike. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Tokyo Vice

    An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

    NOW A MAX ORIGINAL SERIES. A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist who "pulls the curtain back on ... [an] element of Japanese society that few Westerners ever see" (San Francisco Examiner).Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The End of Japanese Cinema

    Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies

    In The End of Japanese Cinema Alexander Zahlten moves film theory beyond the confines of film itself, attending to the emergence of new kinds of aesthetics, politics, temporalities, and understandings of film and media. He traces the evolution of a new media ecology through deep historical analyses of the Japanese film industry from the 1960s to the 2000s. Zahlten focuses on three popular ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • To Hell and Back

    The Last Train from Hiroshima

    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever.To Hell and Back offers readers a stunning, “you are there” time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino’s scientific authority and close ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • In the Realm of a Dying Emperor

    by Norma Field ...
    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 right wing. Yet this insightful book by a Japanese-American scholar who grew up in both cultures ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ordeal By Sea; The Tragedy Of The U.S.S. Indianapolis

    by Thomas Helm ...
    July 30, 1945: The heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis was sunk by a torpedo. 1,196 men went into the water. When rescue arrived five days later, only 317 remained. What happened during those five terrible days? Full of harrowing personal accounts from survivors, and written by a veteran who served aboard the cruiser before the attack, Ordeal by Sea chronicles the stark human drama and sensational ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aikido Ground Fighting

    Grappling and Submission Techniques

    Aikido Ground Fighting presents effective ground techniques that remain true to aikido founder Morehei Ueshiba's teachings while addressing a potential weakness in the system: while aikido is renowned for its submission and compliance techniques as well as grappling from a standing position, it is not known for its effectiveness when it comes to ground fighting. Aikido Ground Fighting is a unique ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sacked At Saipan

    The relief of Major General Ralph Smith, U.S. Army, from the command of the 27th Infantry Division during the battle for Saipan on 24 June 1944 by Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith, U.S. Marine Corps, seemingly ignited a slow-burning fuse of service competition, jealousy, and animosity that some say is still burning bright today...Nearly seventy years later, the question is still a topic of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Woods of Memory

    Translated by Takuma Sminkey ...
    Generally regarded as Okinawa's most adventurous and promising writer of fiction today.”-Michael S. Molasky, University of MinnesotaIn the Woods of Memory is a powerful, thought-provoking novel that focuses on two incidents during the Battle of Okinawa, 1945: the sexual assault on Sayoko, 17, by four US soldiers and her friend Seiji’s attempt at revenge. Narrations through nine points of view, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 成為臺灣人

    殖民城市基隆下的民族形成(1880s-1950s)

    Translated by 堯嘉寧 ...
    Series Book 27 - 臺灣研究叢書
    從「成為臺灣人」到「身為臺灣人」,在殖民城市基隆喚醒被隱埋的在地認同與民族意識。臺灣接連受到清朝,日本和中國政府統治,每一個政權都對這座島嶼和居民的現代化,文明開化有各自的規劃藍圖,也根本上影響1880年代到1950年代臺灣人意識的形成。從清治末期到戰後初期,基隆城一直有著無限可能,作為實體和想像邊境的一部分,在帝國和民族國家的交界處占有重要位置。作者從在地認同,社會團體,宗教文化,福利領域等面向,以可謂首當其衝站在臺灣現代變遷最前線的港都基隆為中心,檢視一段臺灣人民族起源的歷史。「成為臺灣人」的過程中,基隆居民扮演先鋒角色,菁英士紳,組織機構,國家行為者在此地都有過協商與努力,最後得以獲得預期之外的成果和意義。因此如果要完全理解現代臺灣人的認同,仔細探討他們的經驗和活動至關重要,本書所討論的正是如何經由這些複雜多變的關係而「身為臺灣人」。 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Shinto Cult

    A Christian Study of the Ancient Religion of Japan

    This edition features a linked Table of Contents and FootnotesCONTENTSThe CountryIs Shinto a Religion?Origin and Relative Age of the PeopleMeaning of the Term ShintoSources of InformationJapanese Cosmogony and MythologyThe Japanese a Self-centered PeopleEssence of the Shinto CultThe Great SanctuariesFive Noteworthy Objects Connected with the WorshipThe Ancestor Worship<... ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Bonsai: A Comprehensive Guide to Growing, Pruning, Wiring and Caring for Your Bonsai Trees

    by Daiki Sato ...
    Master the art of growing healthy, robust and gorgeous bonsai trees and unlock the therapeutic benefits of the ancient practice with this comprehensive guide to cultivating bonsai treesHave you ever laid eyes upon a magnificent bonsai tree and wondered if you could replicate that beauty in your own home and private space? Do you want to adopt a wholesome new hobby that will develop your gardening ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Was Dropping the Atomic Bombs a Crime Against Humanity?

    Insights from Harry S. Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt

    by Ryuho Okawa ...
    Was there any true justification for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? To answer to this question, Master Ryuho Okawa conducted spiritual interviews with Harry S. Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the two presidents who presided over the United States’ participation in World War II. Could anything justify the use of nuclear weapons on civilians? Was Pearl Harbor really a sneak attack, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds

    A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales

    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and journeys to supernatural realms. The most comprehensive compendium of short medieval Japanese fiction in English, Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds illuminates a rich world of literary, Buddhist, and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD