Written in the style of a thriller but solidly based on an array of sources, this study reinterprets the entire...

A welcome addition to the field, this rigorous, scholarly book departs from the traditional viewpoint of educational systems and structural...

This is the earliest detailed survey of the voluminous Japanese literature published in English, ranging from the Archaic period (before...

This volume deals specifically with recent original research in the history of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Islamic, and Indian astronomy. It...

This book looks at schooling in Japan and considers the links between education and society. Free Shipping....

Why did almost one thousand highly educated student soldiers volunteer to serve in Japan's tokkotai (kamikaze) operations near the end...

This book explains the shift in industrial leadership from Britain to the United States earlier in this century and from...

This lively autobiography begins with the gene pool of parents, grandparents and great grandparents. The author's eventful life proceeds from...

The University of Illinois Press continues its paperback release of Samuel Eliot Morison's panoramic fifteen-volume naval history with three volumes...

This is the only book on the art of ninjutsu written by Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi, the 34th-generation leader of the...

The first all-inclusive, single-volume guide to the history of modern Japan -- conveniently divided into easy-to-use sections that provide a...

Japan's transformation from closed agrarian society to major world power. Free Shipping....

Magliola's exposition of Derrida has been acclaimed as the best in English. Indeed, it is the only account I know...

From Hawaii's sugar plantations to California's truck farms, Japanese Americans have overcome pervasive discrimination and legal restrictions to become the...

Samurai: An Illustrated History...

Tragic and heroic -- these two words capture the essence of Vietnam's history. These terms are consciously placed in sequence...

The Japanese campaign to build the Children's Peace Statue honoring Sadako Sasaki, who died from atomic bomb disease shortly after...

Suddenly anime is . . . exploding. But where did Japanese animation come from, and what does it all mean?...

A classic text treasured by martial artists for over twenty years, Karate's History & Traditions was long recognized as the...

Kozo Uno influenced a whole generation of marxian political economists in post World War II Japan. Thomas Sekine worked closely...

While most people associate Japanese film with modern directors like Akira Kurosawa, Japan's cinema has a rich tradition going back...

For almost 40 years, Japan's Oshima Nagisa has produced provocative films that have provided running commentary, direct and indirect, on...

A strange and repugnant mystery of the twentieth century is the durability of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion,...

Throughout the Pacific theater of World War II, Allied prisoners were often starved, tortured, beheaded, even cannibalized by Japanese soldiers....

As he was dying, Abba Benjamin taught his sons this: Do this, and you'll be saved: Rejoice always, pray constantly,...

Chinese Calligraphy: From Pictograph to Ideogram: The History of 214 Essential Chinese/Japanese Characters...

FDR: The War President opens as Roosevelt has been re-elected to a third term and the United States is drifting...

The first English-language history of Korea to appear in more than a decade, this translation offers Western readers a distillation...

Unearthing page-turning revelations, the Seagraves have written the first complete account of the Yamato imperial family dynasty, from Emperor Meiji...

Maneuvers takes readers on a global tour of the sprawling process called militarization . With her incisive verve and moxie,...

The author has attempted to eschew theoretical assumptions about human societies and confined himself to a straightforward narrative. He has...

This is a pioneering study of Japanese 'pure anarchism' between the wars focused on its principal theoretician, Hatta Shuzo. Free...

An Archaeological History of Japan, 30,000 B.P. to A.D. 700. Free Shipping....

In this wide-ranging cultural and political history of Filipinos and the Philippines, Vicente L. Rafael examines the period from the...

Among the authors of this highly acclaimed series are Laura Ingalls Wilder Award winner Milton Meltzer, Coretta Scott King Award...

Advance of Phycology in Japan. Free Shipping....

The Many Cultures, One World series takes readers on a journey around the world. Inviting text and colorful images will...

Here is the authorized true story of Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese Schindler, who saved thousands of Jews during World War...

How adroitly he cuts through the crap and really says something, describes The Village Voice of world-famous political writer and...

In 1960 millions of Japanese citizens took to the streets for months of protest against the U.S. -- Japan Security...

Cinema scholar Scott MacDonald interviews filmmakers from Sweden, France, Italy, Austria, Armenia, India, the Philippines, and Japan, and examines the...

History of Japan, 1615-1867...

This is the first book on the history of Japanese theology written by Japanese theologians. The authors clarify the tumultuous...

With compelling photographs and memorabilia, and a gripping text that presents the recollections of American and Japanese civilians, sailors, and...

In the tradition of Theory Z, a management expert explains how America can regain its #1 economic power status by...

This collection marks a turning point in the study of the history of American religions. In challenging the dominant paradigm,...

This book analyzes the top management of leading Japanese enterprises. Drawing on the work of Alfred Chandler, Morikawa demonstrates the...

In this book, Irving Rouse evaluates research on prehistoric migrations, from successfully tested hypotheses explaining the origins of the Polynesians,...

John Nathan uncovers the secrets of Sony's success in this thorough and entertaining history of the company that rose out...

From the doctor who rode through a snowstorm to tend a sick child, to the American marine who baffled the...

Test Your Baseball Literacy Entertaining quizzes on every facet of the Great American Game— from Shoeless Joe to Sadaharu Oh...

Dean A. Sullivan presents a fascinating array of provocative, unexpected, and illuminating materials revealing the rich history of baseball. The...

The Prehistory of Japan and Its Position in Eas Asia...

Redesigning the Firm illuminates many of the challenges that confront the executive, approaching the issue from a wide variety of...

Translated by John Rosenfield Comprehensive overview of Japanese art, from the earliest times to sixteenth century....

This is the first cross-cultural study of Chekhov's plays in production. Many now consider Chekhov a playwright equal to Shakespeare,...

This is a vivid account of the corrupt and improbable political machine that ran Japanese politics for twenty years, from...

A provocative set of interpretative essays by eminent scholars, this volume will appeal to anyone interested in the history of...

'All students of Japanese history will welcome the completion of this history...These volumes, with the author's earlier works, provide the...

An anthology of more than 70 poems inspired by the horror and heroism of war, illustrated with striking scratchboard drawings....

At the outbreak of World War II, more than 115,000 Japanese American civilians living on the West Coast of the...

This path-breaking comparative study of Japan, Korea and Taiwan analyzes the evolution of the financial systems of each country in...

Textbooks may interpret history, but the books in the Pages from History series are history. Each title, compiled and edited...

Forced to adapt to the efficiency introduced by Japanese motorcycle makers, Harley-Davidson created the Evolution engine in 1984. The Evo...

Kiku and Yoshi can't wait to visit their grandfather, Japan's most famous artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Their adventure begins in...

In this New York Times Notable Book, Patrick Smith offers a groundbreaking framework for understanding the Japan of the next...

Westerners have long been fascinated by Japanese art, but many viewers are unable to fully enjoy the work because they...

Explores the role of 1930s Japanese cinema in the construction of a national identity and in the larger context of...

The world economy is in crisis. America faces crushing deficits in both the federal budget and the balance of trade....

Requiring no advanced knowledge of mathematics or physics, this Encyclopedia brings together current scholarly thinking and the state of the...

The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a...

The Dawn of History to the Late Tokugawa Period. Free Shipping....

Armed conflict has always played an important role in Chinese history. Most of China's imperial dynasties were established as a...

100 Ships & Planes That Shaped World History takes readers on a worldwide tour of the amazing and famous sea...

In this brilliantly authoritative book, Karel van Wolferen unravels the confusions and misperceptions the West has about Japan and can...

For over a thousand years the sword has played a crucial role in Japanese society. Even today it remains a...

A History of Writing in Japan...

Gender in World History explores continuities, change and patterns over time. It provides a distinctive approach to the explorations of...

Tracing the development of the Japanese cinema from 1896, when the first Kinetoscope was imported, through the golden ages of...

One of America's leading historians tells the entire story behind the disagreements, tensions, and skirmishes between Japan--a compact, homogeneous, closely-knit...

From its imperial past to its industrialized, technologically-advanced present, Japan has fascinated Westerners. Concentrating especially on social history, as well...

Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when they are compared to American practices. This book...

A warm, intimate portrait of the grand family estate of six generations of Rockefellers.Built between 1906 and 1913 by architects...

A history of America in World War II is told through the lives of an ethnically diverse group of ordinary...

This book explores Japan's scientific colonialism through a careful study of the changing roles of Taiwanese doctors under Japanese colonial...

This is a concise, reliable guide to the people, places, events, and ideas of significance from the Meiji Restoration to...

These titles provide exciting and informative topics for research and reports and offer in-depth coverage of major events in American...

National Book Award-winning translator and scholar Karen Brazell presents the first comprehensive gathering in a single volume of the most...

From the Publisher The passion for butterflies -- evident in today's explosion of butterfly imagery in fashion, jewelry, and the...

This Newbery Honor Book relates how in 1853 American Commodore Matthew Perry and his troops sailed to Japan--a land where...

The Home Front: An Oral History of the War Years in America: 1941-45...

Injured players who pitch through their pain. Fans who politely return foul balls. This witty and incisive book by the...

Learning to Be Modern: Japanese Political Discourse on Education. Free Shipping....

Japanese Americans have played an important and largely unrecognized role in American history. Only in the last twenty years has...

Charles Kindleberger's World Economic Primacy: 1500-1990 is a work of rare ambition and scope from one of our most respected...

Devil Take the Hindmost is a lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the seventeenth century to...

Stefan Tanaka examines how late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese historians created the equivalent of an Orient for their...

Seventeen distinguished experts on Japanese religion provide a fascinating overview of its history and development. Beginning with the origins of...

History of the Second World War, B. H. Liddell Hart's last work, abounds with controversial judgments, including assertions about the...

Offers reader an authoritative overview of 2,000 years of Japanese history....