"The First World War was the defining event of the twentieth century. No previous war matched it in scale, brutality...

The rise of South Korea is one of the most unexpected and inspirational developments of the latter part of our...

"Heavenly Warriors" traces in detail the evolutionary development of weaponry, horsemanship, military organization, and tactics from Japan's early conflicts with...

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

Saigon is the city of the yellow anguish, a languidness that possessed the > Europeans that lived in Vietnam. At...

This important work is being brought back into print for the 50th anniversary of the naval battle that broke the...

A magisterial, unprecedented overview of the clouded and turbulent years before World War II. It was a decade dominated worldwide...

Now with full color throughout, this book presents a comprehensive, extensively illustrated, and absorbing overview of Japanese art--from the Joman...

For the last decade of Burma's traumatic history, Aung San Suu Kyi-winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize-has been the...

Schom's histories and biographies ("Trafalgar, One Hundred Days," and "Napoleon") have been celebrated for their iconoclastic approach. In this magisterial...

Germany's Last Mission to Japan: The Failed Voyage of U-234...

Armies of the Russo-Japanese War 1904-05...

Although the siege of Wake Island was not one of World War II's biggest campaigns, it had a profound psychological...

On November 24, 1943, a Japanese torpedo plunged into the starboard side of the American escort carrier USS "Liscome Bay....

This controversial book, now in paperback, brings to light devastating evidence that FDR knew of the Japanese plans to attack...

This compact reference work contains over 200 articles organized into thematic sections on the geography, history, government, economy, society, culture,...

First-hand accounts of the Boxer Rebellion by the officers, soldiers and civilians -- American, British, Japanese, Austrian and others --...

"Our camp was built in a mudhole. You're in mud and filth all the time, and in the jungle everything...

Examines the history of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism and how orientalist assumptions have caused the West to ignore this important...

Inside Japanese Business: A Narrative History, 1960-2000...

History of Japan...

An indispensable reference source to Japan and its people--past and present--in a single volume, written by an international team of...

This book provides a definitive overview of hunter-gatherer historiography, from the earliest anthropological writings through to the present day. What...

In a series of searching examinations of the structure, ethos, and goals of the Japanese military establishment, Drea offers new...

The political influence of temples in pre-modern Japan, most clearly manifested in divine demonstrations, has traditionally been condemned and is...

The Victim as Hero: Ideologies of Peace and National Identity in Postwar Japan...

To the Ends of Japan...

Giving the reader a unique window into the inner workings of U.S. diplomacy in President Bill Clinton's first term, this...

Baseball has long been considered the great American game, but times have changed. The game now reverberates across the globe....

Published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of liberation of Hong Kong and VJ Day, this is the authoritative account...

Pre-war disdain over the calibre of the Japanese airman gave way to awed respect, as the Aviators' performance during the...

Written by a team of distinguished scholars, this book establishes that photography began to play a vital role in Japanese...

This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of Japan's premodern and...

By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a...

Museums today are more than familiar cultural institutions and showplaces of accumulated objects; they are the sites of interaction between...

"Japan's Asian Policy gives a timely, rich and balanced account of Japan's renewed foreign policy toward its neighbors and of...

The letters of Mary Kimoto Tomita tell the story of a young American woman of Japanese descent who along with...

A translation of the Japanese classic Sado-sai-jiki, Chado: The Way of Tea explores the unique and varied aspects of the...

This new edition brings together selected chapters from Volume 5 of The Cambridge History of Japan. Japan underwent momentous changes...

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

Part of Hill and Wang's Critical Issues Series and well established on college reading lists, PRISONERS WITHOUT TRIAL presents a...

The Great Depression transformed Delaware more than any other event in the modern history of the state. Through vintage photographs,...

Japan in the Twenty-First Century: Environment, Economy, and Society...

Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920s...

This book provides a comprehensive look at the political events, development, and issues in Japan from the final days of...

This lavisly illustrated volume presents an in-depth look at the world-famous Huntington Botanical Gardens, including the popular desert and Japanese...

Japanese Castles 1540-1640...

Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg and the Shogun's Realm, 1775-1796...

This delightful popular encyclopedia of Japanese culture, history and society is a treasury of exotic facts and useful information, illustrated...

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

First published in 1906 at the height of Japonisme, this book can be seen both as an artifact of the...

On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged...

Cumings details a memorable narrative of Korea's fractured modern history, focusing specifically on the country's long 20th century--a period of...

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

The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew members of the USS...

This renowned guide to Kamakura, a beautiful city rich in tradition and history, once the nation's capital and now a...

A new look at the famous World War II naval battle--the greatest in history--that makes use of previously untapped Japanese...

The Art of Japanese Sword Polishing:...

The Meiji Restoration of 1868 inaugurated a period of great change in Japan; it is seldom associated, however, with advances...

Manchuria Under Japanese Dominion...

This "New York Times" national bestseller recounts the forgotten story of the brutal massacre of 300,000 Chinese civilians by the...

This indispensable resource, compiled by an expert, employs an alphabetized, dictionary-style format that makes it easy to locate material on...

IN THE COURSE of the twentieth century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive as World War II....

The Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War provides considerable breadth and range on a war that took place a century...

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

The color of blood is red, not black or white. Yet blood, along with fingerprints, skin, and color is commonly...

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

A Japanese Company in Crisis: Ideology, Strategy and Narrative...

The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War Against Japan...

In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Bix offers the first complete look at the enigmatic leader whose...

Japan: A Documentary History...

A Social History of Science And Technology in Contemporary Japan...

This innovative new history of Japan highlights the connections between Japanese history and world history in general. 48 halftones. Maps....

Drawing on many of the papers delivered by leading scholars in their field at the centennial conference held in Jerusalem...

Gathers oral histories from Japanese immigrants, most of them women, that discuss leaving Japan, life as farmers and orchard workers,...

This is the first comprehensive study of the sources and nature of classical Japanese kingship and state formation. To draw...

Since flying its first mail flight on October 1, 1926, Northwest Airways, now known as Northwest Airlines, has grown to...

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

When this volume first appeared in Japan almost exactly a half century ago, the impact was immediate and dramatic. It...

"Awakening: An Introduction to the History of Eastern Thought" is an excellent introductory text for students new to the field...

Japan, a decade behind the United States, is now expressing its awareness of women as a major social issue. This...

- U.S. interest in the attack on Pearl Harbor is huge; this book covers the later career of the mastermind...

With growing ethnic unrest in the region and US troops hunting terrorists in the Philippines, the need to understand Southeast...

This is the first book length work in English dealing with the crucial and troubled relationship between Korea and the...

Now in paperback, War Without Mercy has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most original...

This is the personal account of a man who grew up in China and witnessed tumultuous years of the Cultural...

Battle for Leyte 1944: Allied and Japanese Plans, Preparations, and Execution...

The United States' involvement in World War II began with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941....

Modern Japan: A Historican Survey...

This is the first comprehensive and balanced history of a major Muslim rebellion in northwest China in the late nineteenth...

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

This book provides a comprehensive look at the political events, development, and issues in Japan from the final days of...

The Spirit of Japanese Law focuses on the century following the Meiji Constitution, Japans initial reception of continental European law....

This is the story of Colonel Lyn and his daring Commandos, and of Operation Malay Tiger, their top-secret mission, and...

Nearly half a century ago, the economic historian Harold Innis pointed out that the geographical limits of empires were determined...

Author John Haseman explores the underground resistance movement that grew and flourished in the wake of the Japanese invasion of...

In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army...

The United States is truly a nation of immigrants, or as the poet Walt Whitman once said, a "nation of...

The most extensive and reliable data available on Axis submarine victories are presented in this comprehensive reference....

In this classic bestseller, Liza Dalby, the only non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha, offers an insider's look...