Americas preeminent intellectual historian of modern Japan inaugurates a challenging debate on the arbitrary cultural divisions of our world, and...

Are we what we eat? What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in...

Chiune Sugihara and Japan's Foreign Ministry: Between Incompetence and Culpability...

This history of computing focuses not on chronology (what came first and who deserves credit for it) but on the...

Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan...

In the aftermath of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the systematic exile and incarceration of thousands of Japanese Americans,...

The brief but accomplished life of Army Air Forces fighter ace Gerald Johnson (1920-"45) is the subject of John Bruning's...

One of the first, most widely-read and respected histories of Korea, Ki-baik Lee's "Han'guksa Sillon has been translated into English...

Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Iwo, Midway, Tokyo...the powerful images of "Gun Camera Pacific illustrate the air war over the Pacific from...

Details the ordeal of abandoned Japanese units in Rabaul on New Britain Island. Includes many rare photos....

Eileen Tamura examines the forms that U.S. hysteria over 'Americanization' took after World War I in Hawaii, where the children...

The incredible story of the (until recently) secret military unit of World War II, the forerunner of the modern Special...

With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the...

Examines local politics in three Japanese domains to show how warlords and their samurai adapted the theory and practice of...

Shirakawa was the name given the White River Valley--a fertile crescent between Seatttle and Tacoma, Washington--by the Japanese immigrants who...

A history of World War II in the Pacific Ocean contends that the conflict was not in the best interest...

This fascinating, richly illustrated survey of all aspects of the Pacific war, from Pearl Harbor to Japan's surrender in Tokyo...

From Hitler's rise to power to the Japanese surrender on the deck of the Missouri in 1945, World War II...

Explains the structure of the feudal society, describes the rise of economic life and tells of the impact of Commodore...

Enhanced with over 200 rare illustrations, this thrilling firsthand account relates the tension and triumph attendant upon Perry's mission to...

Describes Japan's biological warfare program and the fate of American POWs, and how one survivor, Marvin Watkins, returned to Japan...

Akira Yoshimura originally wrote Zero Fighter for the Japanese market, which is actually an interesting perspective for North American audiences...

Shadow Shoguns: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Postwar Political Machine...

The turning point of the war in Burma in the Second World War was the Imphal/Kohima campaign of 1944. For...

When A. J. P. Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War appeared in 1961 it made a profound impact....

The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame...

A vividly detailed account of life aboard U.S. submarines in the Pacific during World War II....

A factual account and clarification of the integral roles of Asians in American history focuses on the period between the...

This study of Japan's transformation by the economic crises of the 1930s focuses on efforts to overcome the effects of...

For the tribes of the Yakima Indian Federation, the word "yakima" meant "beautiful land", but for the Japanese settlers in...

A History of Modern Japanese Aesthetics...

The essence of Zen is contained here. First compiled in 16th and 17th century Japan, the sayings range from profound...

The Rise of Modern Japan...

The voices in this powerful collection of poetry and prose refute the assumption that the devastation unleashed on Hiroshima and...

Soldiers of the Sun traces the origins of the Imperial Japanese Army back to its samurai roots in the nineteenth...

Soon after overthrowing the Tokugawa government in 1868, the new Meiji leaders devised ambitious plans to build a modern nation-state....

Recounts the author's experience as a prisoner of war...

Kaminski (history, U. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point) reminds us that prisoners of war have not only been men. With photos of...

"This new edition embraces the whole continent from both national and regional perspectives, and combines political survey with grass roots...

Japan and Asian Modernities...

This book reveals how naval relationships between Japan and Korea alternated between outright hostility and so-called 'trade', conducted by Japanese...

Explains the structure of the feudal society, describes the rise of economic life and tells of the impact of Commodore...

"I'll search you out, put my lips to your tender ear, and tell you. . . . I'll tell you...

"This is a major historical work that, in the field of Japanese imperialism, will set a standard for careful and...

A survey of Japanese religion which emphasizes its interaction with the culture of Japan. The book provides an overview of...

Britain's leading historian of Samurai warfare describes, explains and ilustrates the strikingly colourful heraldry of the great warring families and...

"Brian Hayashi's book is one of the most detailed, insightful and thoroughly documented accounts of the Japanese American experience during...

Throughout the spring and summer of 1945, Major General Curtis LeMay and his squadron of B29 bombers targeted Tokyo and...

Nearly 120 entries provide information about the capital ships of Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Austria-Hungary, Russia and the...

Japanese Americans have played an important and largely unrecognized role in American history....

Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature a Critical Approach...

A unique, multi-authored social history of war from the third millennium B.C.E. to the tenth century C.E. in the Mediterranean,...

"A landmark book published to rave reviews a decade ago, Pearl" Harbor" Ghosts" has now been updated to commemorate the...

B> "The history of Imperial Japan, from the Meiji Restoration through to defeat and occupation at the end of the...

Japanese Overseas Settlements to 1650...

Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces...

Christianity in Early Modern Japan Christianity in Early Modern Japan: Kirishitan Belief and Practice Kirishitan Belief and Practice...

Challenging as well as educational, 'Japanese Cultural Encounters' reveals the fascinating differences-from the significant to the subtle-between the Japanese culture...

On December 8, 1941, the day after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded the Philippine Islands, catching...

A Companion to Japanese History...

In this major addition to the literature on modern Japanese development, Bai Gao emphasizes the role of ideas and ideology...

Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II...

Classic study of gardening techniques and artistic principles involved. Includes analysis of five main garden types, plus important components: stones,...

British filmmaker and documentary director Stephen Walker tells the story of the bombing of Hiroshima in a new and dramatic...

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

On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb destroyed the city of Hiroshima, Japan. This book, a masterpiece by Pulitzer Prize-winning...

War and Responsibility in Japan: The Role of the Emperor and the War Occupation Debates...

When the Japanese Imperial Forces invaded the Philippine Islands at the onset of World War II, they quickly rounded up...

Imperial Japanese Navy Aces 1937-45...

From 1932 to 1945, in a quest to develop germ warfare capability for the military of Imperial Japan, hundreds of...

'The Pacific War provides knowledge of what went on in Japan and in the conquered territories during World War ll...

The final preliminary to the invasion of the Japanese mainland was possession of the Ryukyu island group, midway between Formosa...

Describes the ordeal of American, British, and Australian prisoners held by the Japanese during World War II, revealing the hardships...

Divine Wind: Japan's Kamikaze Force in World War II...

As told by ace navigator Ralph Nutter, this is the story of two of our country's leading airmen during World...

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

A tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II. On January 28, 1945,...

Far from being peaceful or meditative, the warrior monks of Japan were formidable fighting men, armed with distinctive long-bladed 'naginata'...

Using previously neglected archives of firsthand accounts, Dan van der Vat interweaves eyewitness testimony with sharp, analytic narrative in a...

This gripping blow-by-blow account of a war between the United States and Japan, originally published in 1925, predicted actual events....

One of the few non-Japanese Americans trained to read, write, and speak Japanese, Princeton undergraduate Grant Goodman had a privileged...

Through meticulous research and unprecedented interviews with Japanese and American combatants, award-winning author Wetterhahn provides a breathtaking account of the...

Only now can the full scope of the war in the Pacific be fully understood. Historian Ronald Spector, drawing on...

From Germany's invasion of Poland to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, from D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge...

Aircraft carriers were used in many of the crucial naval engagements of the Second World War, ranging front the Royal...

In this book, the author assesses the relationship between special intelligence and the campaigns of General Douglas MacArthur in the...

Through Morison's eloquence the half-forgotten, far-off names of such Philippine locales as Mindoro, Lingayen Bay, Palawan, Panay, Negros, and Corregidor...

On December 7 1941, Japanese planes attacked the US naval and air bases at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii in the...

Russian Views of Japan, 1792-1913:...

Through meticulous research and unprecedented interviews with Japanese and American combatants, award-winning author Wetterhahn provides a breathtaking account of the...

Tsumi - Offence and Retribution in Early Japan...

Throughout the World War II campaign in the Pacific, an ordinary seaman defied navy regulations by surreptitiously compiling a diary...

"Dirty Little Secrets of World War II exposes the dark, irreverent, misunderstood, and often tragicomic aspects of military operations during...

Here is the definitive history of the battle of Midway, an American victory that marked the turning point of the...

Japanese Army Air Force Aces 1937-45...

This book explores the historical roots of economic nationalism within Japan. In a situation analogous to early modern Germany, Japan...

Kenneth Chase traces the history of firearms from their invention in China in the 1100s to the 1700s, when European...

Between August 1937 and December 1941, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret agents and the assassins of the Japanese...

The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history--the monumental Americans and the California Dream...