Imagine life in a distant age, a time when the first people hunted with sticks and spears made from wood...

Traces the history of Japan from its stormy medieval period to the Meiji era and the emergence of modern Japan....

From the sinking of the British passenger liner Athenia on September 3, 1939, by a German U-boat (against orders) to...

For more than a century the piano has occupied a dominant place in music and society. Here, Ehrlich traces the...

Japan's ancient age was a period of radical social and political change during which a Chinese-style empire emerged. This volume...

Considering the great influence textbooks have as interpreters of history, politics, and culture to future generations of citizens, it is...

Relates the events preceding, during, and after the battle for the tiny Japanese island of Iwo Jima, where American victory...

This book delineates the drive for Korean modernization by cultural nationalists during the colonial era in the early twentieth century....

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When Goku dies of a deadly virus, it seems like the end of the world. But the powerful Master's passing...

At the peak of the Heian Era, famine and disease tear the country apart. Deadly assassins fill the court, and...

In keeping with the Puffy AmiYumi spirit, An Illustrated History has been assembled whimsically, not lineraly. It starts off with...

'Thirty firsthand accounts by the officers and men who served aboard carriers and those who flew the aircraft from their...

This book explores the historical writings of postwar Japanese Marxists - who were, and who continue to be, surprisingly numerous...

In The Yamato Dynasty, Sterling Seagrave, who divulged the secrets of Mao Tse-tung and the ruthlessness of Chiang Kai-shek in...

This book offers a distinctive and penetrating overview of the internal and external forces responsible for the making of modern...

This volume is concerned with the development of business and economic relations between Britain and Japan from the early seventeenth...

From critically acclaimed author and Japanese scholar Lesley Downer, an enchanting portrait of the mysterious world of the geisha.Ever since...

Sino-Japanese relations were beset by controversy in the 1980s when the Japanese Education Ministry tried to re-write school textbooks to...

Shinto - A Short History provides an introductory outline of the historical development of Shinto from the ancient period of...

Presenting a challenge to established views of modern Japanese history, the narratives presented here are based on a wide variety...

In a rare combination of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japanese history in its entirety to...

This text provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan. Highly accessible...

Analyses the challenge that Japan's public policy presents to Western traditions of theory practice in political economy: an important discussion...

Islamic, authoritarian, democratic, developing, disintegrating, Indonesia is an enigma to outside observers who have never seemed sure just what it...

Japan is a country which really does merit the title "unique". This traveller's history not only offers the reader a...

Presents the history of Japanese art from 10,500 BCE. This work features: coverage of Japanese art beyond 1945; discoveries both...

Drawing on research of the consumer experience in the West and Japan, this title examines societies less renowned for consumerism,...

How did a political party as overtly racist as the Nazis come to power? Why did Japan commit such grim...

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This bestselling series has been redesigned and rewritten to appeal to today's students. Each volume includes a full-spread timeline that...

The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905...

Compelling first-person accounts from real-life survivors coupled with dramatic images allow the reader to go beyond the history-book accounts of...

A Great American fiasco In the summer of 1942, seven months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour, with the three...

American Shogun: General MacArthur, Emperor Hirohito and the Drama of Modern Japan...

An eyewitness account of life in Hiroshima during and after the bombing...

First into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-atomic Japan And Its Prisoners of War...

To be published in the 60th anniversary year of the infamous bombing of Pearl Harbor, Graveyards of the Pacific is...

Since the late 1960s a ubiquitous feature of popular culture in Japan has been the "idol," an attractive young actor,...

Most World War II submarine stories are glorifications of war written by submarine captains about their own boats. The USS...

In the fall of 1941, the Philippines was a gardenia-scented paradise for the American Army and Navy nurses stationed there....

War in Japan 1467-1615...

Fighting Techniques of a Japanese Infantryman in World War II...

History of the Second World War, B. H. Liddell Hart's last work as well as his magnum opus, embodies the...

Dusty Exile: Looking Back at Japanese Relocation During World War II...

Living in Japan: A Guide to Living, Working, and Traveling in Japan...

Few scholarly works possess the vast attraction and continuing fascination of this nearly century-old classic of sociology. Bringing to his...

This revealing reference contains more than 200 items that blow apart many of the common myths regarding the Vietnam Conflict....

The horrors of this century's war in the South Pacific extended far beyond the detonation of atomic bombs. In this...

The story of the F6F fighter that destroyed more than 5,000 Japanese aircraft -- the men who built it, the...

At the end of WWII, Japan's high command unleashed the Kamikaze....

Masterful pacing, vivid character sketches, and gripping action blend with rigorous historical detail in Samuel B. Griffith II's The Battle...

The Pacific War Papers: Japanese Documents of World War II...

From MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW: This photographic history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki provides the first comprehensive photographic record of the bombings...

In the early part of World War II, 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were interned in relocation centers. Manzanar, the...

Lost And Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration...

Mao was instrumental in shaping the modern world Examines Mao as a revolutionary general and founder of the leader of...

The death of Emperor Hirohito in 1989 ended Japan's Showa era and provided the occasion for the Japanese to confront...

Theology in Japan: Takakura Tokutaro (1885-1934)...

A Short History of Japan: From Samurai to Sony...

This book examines the impact of one of the most crucial events in twentieth-century international history, the Japanese occupation of...

The short-lived Kenmu regime (1333-1336) of Japanese Emperor Go-Daigo is often seen as an inevitably doomed, revanchist attempt to shore...

A foremost historian examines Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II, giving readers the rich and turbulent...

From the late 1920s through World War II, film became a crucial tool in the state of Japan. Detailing the...

An account of the extraordinary strength and courage exhibited by americans under the extreme and seemingly unending stress of three...

FORGOTTEN VOICES OF WORLD WAR II brings us the voices of those who had a hand in the greatest war...

Oda Nobunaga (1534-82), one of the best-known figures in Japanese history, dominated the political scene in Japan between 1568 and...

James W. Johnston was a self-confessed small-town youth, who like so many others patriotically stopped what he was doing and...

The preeminent scholar on Japanese culture provides a masterly introduction to the medieval period, when unique Japan's customs emerged and...

British and Japanese Military Leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941-1945...

A Brief History of Japanese Civilization...

From the Allied landings in Normandy in June 1944 the Second World War had only fourteen months to run. This...

A Larger Memory emerges from eighteenth-century archives and yesterday's headlines -- a sweeping yet intimate history of the diverse individuals...

Defending Japan's Pacific War:...

Tarawa Atoll in the Central Pacific was the November 1943 testing ground for America's ability to take heavily defended Japanese-held...

James Carter outlines the birth of Chinese nationalism in an unlikely setting: the international city of Harbin. Planned and built...

Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American Cover-Up...

A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations...

Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle:...

Some of the greatest figures in aviation history share their most thrilling moments in this epic volume. These are authentic,...

Thomas William Kinder and the Japanese Imperial Mint, 1868-1875...

This acclaimed and widely-used text offers students an in-depth appraisal of Japan's much scrutinized, but often misunderstood society and the...

The question is as searing as it is fundamental to the continuing debate over Japanese culpability in World War II...

This first volume to be published in The Cambridge History of Japan provides a general introduction to Japan's history during...

"A Modern History of Oman details the British influence in Oman from early contacts with the Sultan of Muscat in...

Every school and public library should update its resources on Japan with this engagingly written and succinct narrative history covering...

From March 1942 to December 1944, thousands of innocent American citizens were incarcerated by their own government in prison camps...

Contemporary Japanese Thought...

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

Japan's Postwar History is the only book that provides an integrated analysis of Japan's social, political, and economic history from...

The fall of the Manchu Empire in 1911 ended thousands of years of Imperial rule and ushered in almost 40...

It's an extraordinary tale, largely untold--until now. Researched in both Japanese and Korean archives, and authored by the world's most...

Perhaps the most famous inventor and designer of the Second World War was Barnes Wallis. Thanks to "The Dambusters he...

One of the "Washington Post's Top Nonfiction Titles of 2001 In the spring of 1942, the federal government forced West...

This major work, the result of collaboration among scholars who worked at dozens of sites from the Ural Mountains to...