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  • Onnagata

    A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater

    by Maki Morinaga ...
    Kabuki is well known for its exaggerated acting, flamboyant costumes and makeup, and unnatural storylines. The onnagata, usually male actors who perform the roles of women, have been an important aspect of kabuki since its beginnings in the 17th century. In a “labyrinth” of gendering, the practice of men playing women’s roles has affected the manifestations of femininity in Japanese society. In ... Read more

    $53.99 USD $26.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre is the only dictionary that offers detailed comprehensive coverage of the most important terms, people, and plays in the four principal traditional Japanese theatrical forms—nō, kyōgen, bunraku, and kabuki—supplemented with individual historical essays on each form.This updated edition adds well over 200 plot summaries representing each ... Read more

    $199.99 USD

  • Bushido and Christianity

    Is Christianity compatible with the martial arts and the samurai code of Bushido?The Reverend Takemi Sasamori, Methodist minister and founding pastor of the Komaba Eden Church in Tokyo, Japan, and inheritor of three ancient martial arts traditions, unequivocally answers: "Yes!"In Bushido and Christianity, the Rev. Sasamori weaves together elements of Japanese history, lessons from the Bible, and ... Read more

    $9.98 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crows are Black Everywhere

    Major Herbert O. Yardley led an exciting and amazing life. As the deviser of a new diplomatic cipher code for the Department of State; and as head of the U.S. Government’s cryptographic department—the so-called Black Chamber—from 1919-1929, he contributed enormously to the U.S. efficiency in war and in peace. During World War II, he served as a Major, becoming chief of military intelligence No. 8 ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imperial Japan

    1926-1938

    by A Young ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Japan
    A journalist on the Japan Chronicle for eleven years, the author collected in this volume the most significant current events for discussion. They include the financial crisis of 1927, hostilities with China and in particular Manchuria, Japan’s booming manufacturing industry, Japanese nationalism, Japan’s new empire and its place within the Far East and East Asia. Written from a Western ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Women's Employment in Japan

    The Experience of Part-time Workers

    Series series ASAA Women in Asia Series
    The low status accorded to part-time workers in Japan has resulted in huge inequalities in the workplace. This book examines the problem in-depth using case-study investigations in Japanese workplaces, and reveals the extent of the inequality. It shows how many part-time workers, most of whom are women, are concentrated in low paid, low skilled, poorly unionised service sector jobs. Part-time ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Shadow Warriors of Nakano

    In the history of the twentieth century, the role of the military intelligence services in the competition among nations is still murky. Among the world's foremost intelligence services, those of Imperial Japan remain the least known. Few stories are as compelling as those surrounding the Japanese Army's Nakano School. From 1938 to 1945, the Nakano School trained more than 2,000 men in ... Read more

    $18.95 USD

  • Japan beyond the Kimono

    Innovation and Tradition in the Kyoto Textile Industry

    by Jenny Hall ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    In the ancient city of Kyoto, contemporary artisans and designers are using heritage techniques and traditional clothing aesthetics to reinvent wafuku (Japanese clothing, including kimono) for modern life. Japan Beyond the Kimono explores these shifts, highlighting developments in the Kyoto fashion industry such as its integration of digital weaving and printing techniques and the influence of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair

    Body, Woman, and Desire in Medieval Japanese Narratives

    Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair explores the possibilities and limits of terms such as "body," "woman," "gender," and "agency"—categories that emerged within the context of western philosophical, religious, and feminist debates—to analyze texts that come out of altogether different temporal and cultural contexts. Through close textual readings of a wide range of classical and medieval narratives ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Samurai Wisdom Abstracted: Teachings of Highly Acclaimed Samurai Warriors

    by Sreechinth C ...
    The word Samurai itself is a synonym for Japan, as they are the great ferocious aristocratic warriors in the history of the country. They are the best known for their dignity and elegance during peace and fierce atrocities in war. These highly honoured ardent champions were much ready to sacrifice their own life than bearing any dishonours. The Samurais practice a number of weapons including ... Read more

    $2.15 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The United States and the Japanese Student Movement, 1948–1973

    Managing a Free World

    by Naoko Koda ...
    The author argues that interactions between the movement and US Cold Warriors had a profound and lasting impact on Japanese society and Japan–US relations. ... Read more

    $99.99 USD $34.99 USD

  • The Japanese Empire Disaster

    The book demonstrates that, even if during the first period of the Shwa era (1931–1945) the real driving force to war was the Japanese military, Hirohito, as supreme commander, gave full support to the army. On multiple occasions, as an emperor, he sanctioned many government policies. Accordingly, he was responsible for the war and for the atrocities that the Japanese troops committed in Asia ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Mitford's Japan

    Memories and Recollections, 1866-1906

    Edited by Hugh Cortazzi ...
    As the preface to this new edition points out, Mitford (Algernon Bertram, the first Lord Redesdale) was a gifted writer whose descriptions of Japan, during the critical time of transition from a feudal to a modern state in the late nineteenth century, are a testimony to his narrative skills, accuracy and objective reporting - qualities which are sometimes overshadowed by the higher profile given ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Seeds of Control

    Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea

    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of “forest love,” the colonial government set out to restructure the rhythms and routines of agrarian life, targeting everything from home heating to food preparation. Timber industrialists, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A World Otherwise

    Environmental Praxis in Minamata

    by Yuki Miyamoto ...
    In her book A World Otherwise: Environmental Praxis in Minamata, Yuki Miyamoto examines the struggles of those suffering from Minamata disease, eponymous with the Japanese city in which a Chisso factory released methylmercury into the Shiranui Sea, leading to widespread poisonings. Miyamoto explores Minamata sufferers’ struggles, examining their physical pains as well as the emotional plight of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • 當帝國回到家:戰後日本的遣返與重整

    Translated by 黃煜文 ...
    Series series 遠足新書
    他們是帝國的幫兇?還是犧牲者?數百萬日本人參與了帝國計畫,戰後他們遣返回國時,卻被貼上「引揚者」的標籤,被標記成日本帝國終結的一部分。  一八九五年到一九四五年,日本在海外漸次取得殖民地,其中多半是對外戰爭的戰利品。取得這些領土之後,數百萬日本人參與了帝國計畫,對殖民地進行鎮壓、管理與墾殖。他們以服役士兵、殖民地管理者與企業家的身分零星前往海外。到了戰爭末期,海外日本人的數量已十分可觀。  二次大戰結束後,同盟國從亞洲各殖民地與戰場遣返六百多萬日本國民回到日本,並且從日本遣送一百多萬殖民地人民回到他們的祖國。當新亞洲地圖在一九四五年八月十五日突然生效時,海外日本人與日本本土的殖民地居民因此一下子成了外國人,並且立即面臨遣返與重新確定國籍的問題。隨著朝鮮半島、台灣、中國東北與其他殖民地轉變成新國家,接下來要做的就是讓每個人回到自己所屬的國家空間。  當時 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Beauty Geishas 1

    geishas, #1

    Series Book 1 - geishas
    ¡Sumérgete en la belleza y el encanto de Japón con nuestro libro de ilustraciones de Geishas! Este libro de 76 páginas ilustraciones presenta hermosas a todo color de geishas con kimonos, adornos y peinados típicos de Japón. Algunas de estas imágenes se retratan a las geishas como guerreras intrépidas montando dragones o caballos, mientras que otras capturan su gracia en situaciones más cotidianas ... Read more

    $3.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Homecomings

    The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers

    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Soon after the end of World War II, a majority of the nearly 7 million Japanese civilians and serviceman who had been posted overseas returned home. Heeding the call to rebuild, these veterans helped remake Japan and enjoyed popularized accounts of their service. For those who took longer to be repatriated, such as the POWs detained in labor camps in Siberia and the fighters who spent years hiding ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Patriotism, Secularism, and State Shintō: D.C. Holtom’s Representations of Japan

    by Avery averym ...
    This academic research explores the ideology of religious studies with respect to early 20th century studies of Japan. Since 1945, “State Shintō” has been defined in academic literature as a state religion. In fact, the Japanese government took concrete steps to separatetheir patriotic ceremonies from religion; it was Christian missionaries who encouraged the opposite view. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yoshiwara

    Geishas, Courtesans, and the Pleasure Quarters of Old Tokyo

    "Lust will not keep…Something must be done about it."--inscription at the entrance to YoshiwaraFor over a hundred years the Western world has heard whispers of the pleasure city, Yoshiwara, set behind its walls in the city of Edo itself, which is today called Tokyo. Here was an eastern red light district, the place for the hedonists, the woman-seekers, the sensual plasure-hunters of old Japan. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Operation Stalemate II

    Operation Stalemate II was conducted on 15 September 1944 to secure the Palau Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The primary purpose of this operation was to prevent the Japanese from attacking MacArthur’s western flank while he conducted operations in the Philippines. After 72 days of fighting US forces eliminated the entire Japanese garrison of 13,500 soldiers. US casualties included over 2,000 dead ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Japanese Capitals in Historical Perspective

    Place, Power and Memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo

    Edited by Nicolas Fieve, Paul Waley ...
    Japan's ability to develop its own brand of modernity has often been attributed in part to the sophistication of its cities. Concentrating on Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo, the contributors to this volume weave together the links between past and future, memory and vision, symbol and structure, between marginality and power, and between Japan's two great capital cities. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Japan Under Taisho Tenno

    1912-1926

    by A Young ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Japan
    A journalist on the Japan Chronicle for eleven years this volume examines the history, economy, politics and society of Japan from just before the First World War until 1926. Japan’s relations with the West, as well as with Russia and China are also discussed. ... Read more

    $64.99 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