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 Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism (Buddhism and Modernity)Best Price: $23.05 Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the... |  The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration (Women in Culture and Society Series)Best Price: $28.15 In 1862, fifty-one-year-old Matsuo Taseko left her old life behind by traveling to Kyoto, the... |  Politics and Religion in Modern Japan: Red Sun, White LotusBest Price: $42.50 Politics and Religion in Modern Japan addresses crucial religious, socio-political and cultural... |  Election Campaigning Japanese StyleBest Price: $119.48 Running for public office in postwar Japan requires the endorsement of a political party and a... |  Currents in Japanese CultureBest Price: $7.85 This book is wonderful. It gives a reader a look into Japanese culture in all its splendor. ... |
 Arming JapanBest Price: $17.21 While I did find this book to be informative, I found many of the concepts to be very generic... |  The Logic of Japanese PoliticsBest Price: $33.67 As the title of the book suggests, there is a logic to Japanese politics, just as there is a... |  Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of JapanBest Price: $32.00 I'm a Korean Canadian 11th grade student attending Seoul Foreign School. I was originally... |  The limits of foreign policy: The West, the League and the Far Eastern crisis of 1931-1933Best Price: $124.99 |  Japan: A Short Cultural History |
 Sandakan Brothel No. 8: An Episode in the History of Lower-Class Japanese WomenBest Price: $37.50 The remarkable, memorable and poignant story is about Brothel Number 8 in Sandakan, a port town... |  Introduction to Japanese PoliticsBest Price: $15.14 |  Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the GeishaBest Price: $5.02 To those who are not familiar with Japan's traditional "flower and willow... |  Exodus of the Japanese |  The Tokyo Major War Crimes TrialBest Price: $149.95 |
 The Tokyo Major War Crimes Trial |  The Tokyo Major War Crimes Trial: The Records of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East: With an Authoritative Commentary and Comprehensive Guide |  Japan's Modern Prophet: Uchimura Kanzo, 1861-1930 (Asian Religions and Society)Best Price: $43.92 Howes surprised me with his patient account of this deep thinker and passionate, somewhat... |  Smokeless Sugar: The Death of a Provincial Bureaucrat and the Construction of China's National Economy (Contemporary Chinese Studies)Best Price: $23.80 Part political biography, part economic history, and part murder mystery, Smokeless Sugar sheds... |  The Rape of NankingBest Price: $17.61 In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals... |
 The Opium Empire: Japanese Imperialism and Drug Trafficking in Asia, 1895-1945Best Price: $106.95 The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) found Japan guilty of deliberately... |  Kawanakajima 1553-64: Samurai Power Struggle (Praeger Illustrated Military History)Kawanakajima is unique in history. In the space of 12 years, between 1553 and 1564, this valley... |  Sekigahara 1600: The Final Struggle for Power (Praeger Illustrated Military History)Best Price: $65.00 History is like a mirror. We read real stories of great successes and failures in history, we... |  Re-Made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing SocietyBest Price: $11.88 Colonel Sanders, Elvis, Mickey Mouse and Jack Daniels have been enthusiastically embraced by... |  Tales by Japanese Soldiers (Cassell Military Trade Books)Best Price: $75.55 _Tales by Japanese Soldiers_ is a much needed addition to the very small number of Japanese... |
 Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear: Russia's War with Japan (Cassell Military Paperbacks)Best Price: $12.95 There are not a great number of modern histories of the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War, but... |  Escape From The Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous CrewBest Price: $2.65 By the fall of 1944, the USS Tang, commanded by Commander Richard O'Kane, had compiled a war... |  Chrysanthemums and Thorns: The Untold Story of Modern JapanBest Price: $6.15 A good book for those interested in Japanese culture. A very helpful additon to one's... |  What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? And Age of McCarthyism 2e: and American Social Classes in the 1950's |  A Survey of Some Japanese Tax LawsBest Price: $101.95 |
 Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji JapanBest Price: $120.83 Investigating the enormous contribution made by female textile workers to early... |  Southeast Asian Minorities in the Wartime Japanese EmpireBest Price: $170.00 The Japanese invasion and occupation of southeast Asia provided opportunities for the peoples of... |  History of Japan |  Britain and Japan: A Comparative Economic and Social History since 1900To compare Britain and Japan over the course of the last century is to juxtapose two societies... |  Japanese Studies: Communities, Cultures, Critiques: Volume 6: Studies in Language and LinguisticsBest Price: $16.50 |
 Changing Histories: Australia And JapanBest Price: $46.64 |  Japan (Opposing Viewpoints)Best Price: $26.93 |  Rowing the Eternal Sea : The Story of a Minamata Fisherman (Asian Voices)Best Price: $23.50 In the early 1950s fisherfolk and other villagers around Minamata Bay on the western coast of... |  Sandakan Brothel #8: An Episode in the History of Lower-Class Japanese WomenBest Price: $23.84 I wanted to give a short summary of the Geisha's genre, as it has become somewhat more well... |  Japan, the System That Soured: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Economic Miracle (East Gate Books) |
 Lafcadio Hearn's Japan: An Anthology of His WritingsBest Price: $7.99 The selection of works by Lafcadio Hearn shows the true Japan of ancient times. In his writings,... |  Japan Unmasked: The Character & Culture of the Japanese (Tuttle Classics)Best Price: $0.98 This book is a quick read and does provide a quick outline about stereotypical Japanese beliefs... |  A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592-1598 (Campaigns and Commanders)Best Price: $31.77 I am quite disappointed with this book. It is extremely biased with 'pro-Wanli' and... |  Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian ExpositionBest Price: $62.10 Snodgrass challenges the predominant view that Asian cultures are objectified and understood... |  Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 (Rev)Best Price: $14.45 I don't normally review books. I don't know if it's because I'm lazy or because... |
 Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun: U.s. and Japanese Paratroopers at War in the Pacific in World War II (Stackpole Military History) (Stackpole Military History Series)Best Price: $11.39 It's a very complete and specific book about US and Japanese Paratroopers in the PTO during... |  Cultural Atlas of JapanBest Price: $29.94 This volume is handsome and visually appealing, but its contents are a disappointment. The... |  The Spirit of Japanese Law (The Spirit of the Laws)Best Price: $24.94 The Spirit of Japanese Law focuses on the century following the Meiji Constitution, Japan's... |  Japan in the WorldBest Price: $3.20 It has been almost seventeen years since this volume was gathered and published, and however it... |  Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American?East Asian Relations at the End of the Century (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)Best Price: $28.95 The word "parallax" in this title is quickly explained: by changing your... |
 Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950Best Price: $27.38 In this sweeping study of the mapping and remapping of male-male sexuality over four centuries... |  Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet: In Search of a Legendary ArmadaBest Price: $7.58 When Mongol leader, Khubilai Khan, achieved what his Grandfather Genghis had failed to do in... |  The Politics of Oligarchy: Institutional Choice in Imperial Japan (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)Best Price: $21.58 This book examines a key question of modern Japanese politics: why the Meiji oligarchs were... |  Catalogue of Prints and Books Illustrating the History of Engraving in Japan ...Best Price: $13.35 This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was... |  Democracy and the Japanese GovernmentBest Price: $12.82 This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was... |
 The Japanese Secret Service |  Circles of Fantasy: Convention in the Plays of Chikamatsu (Harvard East Asian Monographs)The vibrant merchant culture of Tokugawa Japan gave rise to many new forms of art, none more... |  Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the WestBest Price: $5.98 I'm just getting started with this book, but from the reviews above I can see it will carry... |  A Diary of DarknessBest Price: $19.90 This diary is aptly named. The mood is somber, and the images are distorted, like those in a... |  Japan Through American Eyes: The Journal of Francis Hall Kanagawa and Yokohama 1859-1866 : From the Cleveland Public Library John G White CollectionBest Price: $147.47 As a long time student of Japanese culture (and resident of 20 years), I have read a rather tall... |
 Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and JapanBest Price: $36.95 Ian Buruma's The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan is a major work of... |  The First Samurai: The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel, Taira MasakadoBest Price: $15.56 You know, I've always heard the phrase 'never judge a book by its cover', but until... |  Monks, Spies and a Soldier of Fortune: Japanese in TibetDuring the first half of the 20th century, as Tibet opened its doors to the West, the country... |  East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan: Varieties of Medical Experience (Comparative Studies of Health Systems & Medical Care)Best Price: $142.58 |  Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern JapanThe all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions,... |
 Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET ProgramIn 1987, the Japanese government inaugurated the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program in... |  Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of UpheavalBest Price: $47.50 Are Japanese families in crisis? In this dynamic and substantive study, Merry Isaacs White looks... |  A Sheep's Song: A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the WorldBest Price: $3.43 I would have given 'A Sheep's Song' five stars if I hadn't expected something... |  Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of UpheavalBest Price: $17.99 Number of occurences of female names in the chapter, "Life Choices for Women and Men:"... |  Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body AestheticsBest Price: $49.65 This engaging introduction to Japan's burgeoning beauty culture investigates a wide range of... |
| Lafcadio Hearn's Japan: An Anthology of His Writings Best Price: $7.99 The selection of works by Lafcadio Hearn shows the true Japan of ancient times. In his writings,... | Japan Unmasked: The Character & Culture of the Japanese (Tuttle Classics) Best Price: $0.98 This book is a quick read and does provide a quick outline about stereotypical Japanese beliefs... | A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592-1598 (Campaigns and Commanders) Best Price: $31.77 I am quite disappointed with this book. It is extremely biased with 'pro-Wanli' and... | Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian Exposition Best Price: $62.10 Snodgrass challenges the predominant view that Asian cultures are objectified and understood... | Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 (Rev) Best Price: $14.45 I don't normally review books. I don't know if it's because I'm lazy or because... |
| Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun: U.s. and Japanese Paratroopers at War in the Pacific in World War II (Stackpole Military History) (Stackpole Military History Series) Best Price: $11.39 It's a very complete and specific book about US and Japanese Paratroopers in the PTO during... | Cultural Atlas of Japan Best Price: $29.94 This volume is handsome and visually appealing, but its contents are a disappointment. The... | The Spirit of Japanese Law (The Spirit of the Laws) Best Price: $24.94 The Spirit of Japanese Law focuses on the century following the Meiji Constitution, Japan's... | Japan in the World Best Price: $3.20 It has been almost seventeen years since this volume was gathered and published, and however it... | Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American?East Asian Relations at the End of the Century (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) Best Price: $28.95 The word "parallax" in this title is quickly explained: by changing your... |
 The Rape of NankingBest Price: $18.87 In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals... |  Konoe Fumimaro and the Failure of Peace in Japan, 1937-1941: A Critical Appraisal Of The Three-time Prime MinisterBest Price: $39.95 The blame for a country?s mistakes often falls on its leaders. In some cases, however, a... |  The United States Army Second Division Northwest of Chateau Thierry in World War IBest Price: $39.95 In 1927, at the request of his superiors, John W. Thomason, Jr., set out to chronicle the... |  Bones: Discovering the First AmericansBest Price: $69.94 Dewar has attempted to combine an investigation into the peopling of the Americas with a... |  The Emergence of Japanese KingshipBest Price: $71.65 Joan Piggots' scholarship is excellent. Pulling from a wide array of sources, covering... |
 The Origins of Japan's Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth CenturyBest Price: $38.00 This pioneering collection of fifteen essays proposes to change the way we think about... |  Comrade Loves of the Samurai,Best Price: $2.00 |  Taiheiki a Chronicle of Medieval JapanBest Price: $26.25 Written in 1329,by a Japanese bonze named Kojima,lot of the events are written by first hand... |  In Search of HiroshiBest Price: $168.16 This book is a docu-fiction which depicts the experience of Japanese-Americans in concentration... |  Contemporary Japan (Contemporary States & Societies) |
 The Making of the Modern World: Visions from the West and EastBest Price: $102.86 At the start of the third Christian millennium we are aware of massive political, economic, and... |  Japan and the World since 1868 (International Relations and the Great Powers)Best Price: $110.99 In his survey of Japan's foreign relations since the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the author... |  Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIBest Price: $4.82 Dower describes the pathos of Japan's defeat and its difficult post-war journey to remake... |  Japan: A Modern History: College EditionBest Price: $28.58 This book is an absolutely stellar treatment for its genre: the generalized universal history of... |  Pearl Harbor: The Us Enters World War II (Turning Points of History)Best Price: $0.02 This series examines major historical watersheds and their impact on the world, with each book... |
 Closing the CircleBest Price: $15.00 |  Japanese MindBest Price: $5.00 As an American who has lived in Japan for over seven years, I find Mr. Christopher's account... |  Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the KamikazeBest Price: $6.93 This book is not so much an historical overview of the scope of the kamikaze war initiative... |  Japan Fragile SuperpowerSoftcover | |
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