The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb...

A history of the struggles over identity within the Japanese American community, using ethnic festivals to reveal the conflicts from...

The massive inflation and oil crisis of the 1970s damaged Jimmy Carter's presidency. In "Jimmy Carter's Economy, Carl Biven traces...

Hitler, Mussolini and Japan posed a terrible threat to Britain and its empire. With America withdrawn into isolationism and Stalin's...

Soon after Japanese carrier-based planes attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Japanese land-based bombers pounded Wake Island, an...

Japanese Eyes . . . American Hearts: Personal Reflections of Hawaii's World War II Nisei Soldiers...

When General Douglas MacArthur led Allied troops into the jungles of New Guinea in World War II, he placed his...

Prisoners of Santo Tomas describes what it was like for a woman and her teenage daughter to find themselves suddenly...

Born in the USA: A Story of Japanese America, 1889-1947: A Story of Japanese America, 1889-1947...

In the 1930's and 1940's, the prevalent American view of China was that of a friendly, democratic, and increasingly Christian...

Ghost of War: The Sinking of the Awa Maru and Japanese-American Relations,1945-1995...

This text chronicles the evolution of premodern (early A.D. to 1850), modern (1850-1945), and postwar (1945-1989) Japanese civilization from imperial...

Dennis Kennedy's comprehensive account of the main scenographic movements of the century investigates how visual elements affect Shakespeare on the...

Henry Lasoski, an officer in the Polish army, was there on the first day of World War II, thrusting his...

In the first half of the twentieth century, both czarist Russia and its successor, the Soviet Union, were confronted with...

Historical, geographical, cultural, and economic facts complement extraordinary color photographs to create a unique and fascinating introduction to Japan....

Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality...

In the only English-language book devoted to Cuba's Isle of Youth, Jane McManus writes the history of the small island...

The Jungle, the Japanese and the British Commonwealth Armies at War, 1941-45: Fighting Methods, Doctrine and Training for Jungle Warfare...

Japan's Interventionist State: The Role of the MAFF...

This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment of the Heian period, the golden age of the Japanese imperial court, in...

Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about...

Yogaku: Japanese Music in the Twentieth Century...

Nearly forty years after the outbreak of the "Minamata Disease," it remains one of the most horrific examples of environmental...

Japanese Army of World War II...

The First World War Peace Settlements" explores the international consequences of the ending of the First World War. The First...

Japan's kamikaze pilots sacrificed their lives for the possibility of destroying the enemy's vessels and offered the last, best hope...

A compelling historiographic study of the Rape of Nanjing during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945, one of the worst atrocities...

Excellent general introduction to the history and culture of Japan through the lives of its leaders. "A successful effort to...

IN 1895, Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. For the...

Contributors to this volume explore the dynamic between war and the physical environment from a variety of provocative viewpoints. The...

Using eyewitness accounts and official sources, this is a new and frightening insight into the atrocities committed at sea....

Hawaii Under the Rising Sun: Japan's Plans for Conquest After Pearl Harbor...

This pioneering collection of essays by Japanese, British, and Canadian scholars demonstrates how individuals, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations have...

The challenge of the Asian economic crisis in the late 1990s has placed pressure on the Japanese economy to change,...

This concise history brings to life the remarkable story of a century of the Japanese experience in America. Two major...

Japan's catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the 45...

In 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center inTokyo, Japan, marked "Hana Brady, May 16, 1931," and...

"Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia"addresses provocative themes concerning the experience of particular nations and of East Asia as a...

This is an in-depth investigation of how more than 24,000 European Jews reached Japan and Japanese-occupied Shanghai. As far west...

The simply told yet powerfully moving autobiography of a Filipina teen forced into prostitution after being abducted by Japanese soldiers...

Author Martin J. Kidston has written the compelling, and until now untold, story of courageous young Montanans in the Pacific...

What happens when a critique of modernity -a "revolt against the traditions of the Western world" -is situated within a...

Japan's China Policy: A Relational Power Analysis...

Postmodernism & Japan - Pa...

Japanese Pacific Island Defenses 1941-45...

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

Desperate for junior officers to meet the wartime demands of its rapid expansion and to replace the mounting casualties in...

Sakaue Toshie was born on August 14, 1925, into a family of tenant farmers and day laborers in the hamlet...

This is a collection of the last essays by Yuji Ichioka, the foremost authority on Japanese-American history, who passed away...

What we can learn from the Japanese approach to the problem of acid rain: a historical study of the influence...

New Times in Modern Japan...

Basho (1644-1694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. He made his living as a teacher and writer of...

Grassroots Pacifism in Post-War Japan...

Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game...

Delves into forgotten history to reveal how European racism and colonialism were deftly exploited by the Japanese to create allies...

The Dutch Naval Air Force Against Japan: The Defense of the Netherlands East Indies, 1941-1942...

In this history of Japanese involvement in northeast China, the author argues that JapanUs military seizure of Manchuria in September...

8 1/2 x 11, 96 pgs, 6 color aircraft profiles, 100 b&w photos, This fascinating book offers a rare account...

Origins of Japanese Wealth and Power: Reconciling Confucianism and Capitalism, 1830-1885...

Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period...

Customs & Etiquette of Japan...

The GI War against Japan recounts the harrowing experiences of American soldiers in Asia and the Pacific. Based on countless...

The United Nations in Japan's Foreign and Security Policymaking, 1945-1992: National Security, Party Politics, and International Status...

Konoe Fumimaro and the Failure of Peace in Japan, 1937-1941: A Critical Appraisal of the Three-Time Prime Minister...

On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four...

Filled with drama, this classic account follows every step that led to the disastrous fall of Singapore to the Japanese...

Ecological Modernisation and Japan...

Airmen tell of their experiences interspersed with music and news. CD1- Eagles Over Europe: the AAF Roosevelt eulogy, recordings during...

Historical Dictionary of World War II: The War Against Japan...

In July 1945, having just delivered the atom bomb to be used on Hiroshima, the "U.S.S. Indianapolis" was torpedoed by...

Available for the first time in paperback, this study examines how this ideology evolved. Carol Gluck argues that the process...

Japan's Comfort Women exposes the story of Japanese women who were forced to enter prostitution to serve the Japanese Imperial...

Allied Occupation of Japan...

The Tide at Sunrise: A History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905...

After the Seventh Infantry Division drove across Kwajalein Atoll in the first days of February 1944, successfully wresting control of...

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

Sources of Japanese Tradition is a best-selling classic, unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, politics,...

Japanese Imperialism 1894-1945...

With 116 color illustrations and 214 historical photographsFrom the Aleutians to Australia, from the Himalayas to Pearl Harbor, there has...

Multiethnic Japan challenges the received view of Japanese society as ethnically homogeneous. Employing a wide array of arguments and evidence--historical...

Drifting Toward the Southeast: The Story of Five Japanese Castaways...

This is the story of William N. Donovan, a U.S. Army medical officer in the Philippines who, as a prisoner...

A revised edition of the indispensable sourcebook on modern Japan....

Japan's Past, Japan's Future: One Historian's Odyssey...

Prompt and Utter Destruction: President Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan...

Unconditional Defeat-the second book in a Pacific War trilogy that is part of SR Books' Total War series-examines the concluding...

As recent events in Iraq have once again demonstrated, it is much easier to start a war than it is...

From the preeminent scholar of Japan comes an introduction to the medieval period, when Japan's quintessential culture emerged and flowered....

What did common people do in their normal lives in eighteenth century Japan? What kind of work did they do?...

This new volume examines the processes of cultural exchange as they occurred in empire building, looking at Early Mesopotamia, Africa,...

This new volume examines the processes of cultural exchange as they occurred in empire building, looking at Early Mesopotamia, Africa,...

What actually unites the Japanese to achieve so many economic and social goals that have eluded other polities? In a...

Regarded as one of the foremost thinkers in Japanese postwar intellectual history, Takeuchi Yoshimi questioned the very nature of thought,...

Global Studies: Japan and the Pacific Rim...

Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era,...

Dismissed As Elegant Fossils: Konoe Nobutada and the Role of Aristocrats in Early Modern Japan...

Modeled after the classic "Sources of Chinese Tradition, Sources of Japanese Tradition," and "Sources of Indian Tradition," this collection of...