The Shogun's Painted Culture analyzes Japanese culture prior to contact with Europe. Japan's ruling elite used an "iconography of absence"...

The Rice-Paper Ceiling: Breaking Through Japanese Corporate Culture...

During a crucial period from the 1860s to about 1980, Chinese painting was transformed into a modern expression of its...

Japanese Culture, 4th Edition...

Japanese Architecture as a Collaborative Process; Opportunities in a Flexible Construction Culture...

Music in Japan: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture with CDROM...

"There has been no truly major study of twentieth-century Japanese intellectual life in either Japanese or English, until now. "Overcome...

Colloquial Kansai Japanese: The Dialects and Culture of the Kansai Region...

Requests and Culture: Politeness in British English and Japanese...

This text provides a wide-ranging overview of the development experience of Japan within Pacific Asia and the wider global political...

Pos8: 3 Japanese Imperialism...

"A wonderfully original, cogently argued, and very readable book. Hanley provides persuasive answers to some of the largest questions historians...

The imagination, skill, and beliefs of a culture can all be found ingrained in the art it creates. By matching...

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture...

Founded in 1913 as a counterpart to the all-male Kabuki theater, the all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its...

A portrait of an empire: the first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria....

Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture...

This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes--including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing,...

Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-Century Japan...

FOOD AND CULTURE provides information on the health, culture, food, and nutrition habits of the most common ethnic and racial...

In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage...

Japanese Culture and Communication: Critical Cultural Analysis...

Los Angeles's Japanese American National Museum, established in 1992, remains the only museum in the United States expressly dedicated to...

Akira Iriye examines the Japanese-American war for the first time from the cultural perspectives of both countries, arguing that it...

Their society has been changing rapidly in modern times, yet for most Japanese, cultural traditions retain their importance in daily...

Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy...

Americans are familiarizing themselves with Japanese food, thanks especially sushi's wild popularity and ready availability. This timely book satisfies the...

Compellence is a fundamental tool of international security policy. This study explains how culture shapes the ways that decision-makers respond...

Japanese Women Fiction Writers: Their Culture and Society, 1890's to 1990's...

The bodies and minds of children--and the very space of children--are under assault. This is the message we receive from...

The well-known American photographer John Pfahl has an ongoing fascination with Man's complex interaction with Nature. Extreme Horticulture is his...

Seventeen scholars from varying fields here consider the implications of Confucian concerns--self-cultivation, regulation of the family, social civility, moral education,...

This comprehensive book defines the significance of film-making and film viewing in Korea. Covering the introduction of motion pictures in...

Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, this volume rewrites the history of...

Discusses Japanese culture and tradition and the relationship between the interior and exterior life, which is based on Zen traditions....

Exploring Japaneseness: On Japanese Enactments of Culture and Consciousness...

Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends...

Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930...

"Arts and Culture," Second Edition, is richly illustrated, beautifully designed, and engaging to read. Students move chronologically from prehistoric culture...

Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan...

Teach Yourself World Cultures: Japan...

Why are the paleolithic Venus of Willendorf, Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes, and Marcel Duchamp's ready-made urinal all considered works of...

Japan Edge...

Teach Yourself Language, Life, and Culture titles delve into the customs and ways of their featured countries, taking a respectful...

The two decades after the Second World War are typically viewed as an inchoate interregnum between an expiring modernism and...

The New Japanese Novel: Pop, Culture & Lit. Tradition in the Work of Murakami Haruki and Yoshimoto Banana...

Introduces basic Japanese vocabulary, offers practical conversation exercises, and reviews phrases useful for travelers...

Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the "Kibyoshi" of EDO Japan...

Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn...

Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints: Reflections of Meiji Culture is a pioneer exploration of a previously neglected genre of late-Meiji art: the...

At the turn of the nineteenth century, the German kindergarten -- banned by the Prussian government as revolutionary -- spread...

Facets of Culture: For Advanced Students of Japanese / Boxed Set with CDs...

"Chinese people should consume Chinese products!" This slogan was the catchphrase of a movement in early twentieth-century China that...

American popular culture is everywhere. All over the world, kids wear Levi's, radios blare rap songs, television stations broadcast American...

Final Days: Japanese Culture And Choice at the End of Life...

Alcohol is not only big business. It is an essential part of social relations in so many cultures that its...

"Born out of the editor's inability to find a suitable book for teaching the subject, this is a welcome title....

Folk Performing Arts: Traditional Culture in Contemporary Japan...

Japanese American Midwives: Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880-1950...

Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945: History, Culture, Memory...

Focusing on the youth-driven phenomenon of otaku (roughly translated as "geek culture" or "pop-cult fanaticism"), Murakami and a notable group...

Modern Japanese Culture: The Insider View...

The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800...

Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed...

Japanese Cybercultures...

Once a star of postwar industrial production and methods, Japan has encountered serious trouble with market forces in recent years....

The Trash Phenomenon looks at how writers of the late twentieth century not only have integrated the events, artifacts, and...

This is the story of the Ainu in what is today far Northern Japan, showing the ecological and cultural processes...

House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930...

As Americans become more conscious of trade competition from Japan, Korea looms large as another source of high-quality goods. What...

Breakthrough Japanese: 20 Mini Lessons on Language Ad Culture...

An Absent Presence: Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945-1960...

This study uses the I Ching (Book of Changes) to investigate the role of Chinese learning in the development of...

In this lavishly illustrated book, anthropologist Dalby, author of "Geisha" and "Tale of Murasaki", traces the history of the national...

Culture and Power in Germany and Japan: The Spirit of Renewal...

This is a lively discussion of Japanese popular culture from an anthropological perpective. An international team of authors considers a...

Essays discuss the Japanese approach to life, Tokyo, symbolic systems, theater, film, television, and other amusements, and what they reveal...

A major reassessment of US cultural history, The Cultural Front is a mural of the extraordinary upsurge which reshaped American...

The imagination, skill, and beliefs of a culture can all be found ingrained in the art it creates. By matching...

Essential reading for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassedmasterwork opens an intriguing window on Japan. Benedict"s World WarII-era study...

The imagination, skill, and beliefs of a culture can all be found ingrained in the art it creates. By matching...

Since its publication in 1970, many students, travelers, business people, and other interested readers have found this one-volume work an...

Teach Yourself Japanese Language Life And Culture...

Concise, engaging introductions to vibrant civilizations These new titles in the popular Teach Yourself series cover everything readers would want...

Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, & Japanese...

Music in Japan is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book...

The Pacific War was the most traumatic experience for Japan in modern times......

Wrapping Culture examines problems of intercultural communication and the possibilities for misinterpretation of the familiar in an unfamiliar context......

Currents in Japanese Culture surveys the translation of Japanese culture and the transformation it entails......

Japanese Culture in Comparative Perspective...

The Allied occupation of Japan forever changed the relationship between Japan and the U.S......

Preschool in Three Cultures: Japan, China & the United States...

Comparing Cultures: Readings for Writers on Contemporary America & Japan...

Culture And Customs Of Japan...

A recognized classic of cultural anthropology, this book explores the political, religious, and economic life of Japan from the seventh...