Japanese Society

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An Introduction to Japanese Society provides a highly readable introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimoto...

Reducere. A discursive battle over how Japan's history should be remembered constitutes the most recent, and perhaps the most explosive, round in a struggle ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Japan, then keep reading...Japan, the country of the rising sun, is today known as one o...

DescriptionAccessible introduction to Japanese language and culture Perfect book for aspiring Japanese speakers young and old: Artfully illustrated...

Using analytical tools from a wide spectrum of disciplines, this edited collection analyzes the role of the body in contemporary Japanese society, ...

With a topical focus and timely coverage of the latest dramatic changes in Japanese politics, the volume will appeal to researchers and policy expe...

'A Japanese Mirror is what the tourist who wants to see the real Japan - "through the looking glass" - should pack in his flight-bag.' TLS

Reducere. Learn the ABC's with traditional Japanese food in this beautiful children's book From A for Azuki to Z for Zashiki, "Japanese ABC's" features favor...

When the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyed Russia's battle fleet during the Russo-Japanese War, it marked the emergence of Japan as one of the world...

Reducere. Are you planning a trip to Japan and would you like to enjoy an unforgettable experience?Are you learning Japanese, and would you like to know how ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Simone BravermanTranslator: Yusuke TsukiokaTarget Band 7, Japanese Edition. This excellent self-study book for intense IELT...

Gadjeva explores the potential for the Japan Foundation as a central public diplomacy actor by examining its activities in France and Bulgaria sinc...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

This book confronts the question of who and what is a Nikkei, that is, a person of Japanese descent, by presenting 18 case studies from throughout ...

This book revises the conventional wisdom about the Anglo-Japanese relationship in the late nineteenth century that these two countries were bound ...

Japanese design, cookery, philosophy and culture is made replicable anywhere in the world through the advice here, all of which aims to contribute ...

Reducere. "Azuma" was one of the six armored cruisers built under the programme. Four of them were built by the British Armstrong shipyard, but "Azuma" was o...

Providing an overview of Japanese media theory from the 1910s to the present, this volume introduces English-language readers to Japan's rich body ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Christopher P. (Cardiff University, Wales) HoodIllustration(s): 7 Tables, black and white; 30 Illustratio...

Reducere. Japan's post-World War II "economic miracle" is well-known and much discussed, as is the collapse of the "bubble economy" and the almost decade lon...

Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism is a volume that examines the history of Japan's constitutional debates, key legal decisions...

Reducere. Japan boasts the second largest economy in the world and almost two thousand years of history. Yet, its first modern constitution, the Meiji Consti...

This new and fully updated second edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan provides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdiscip...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Barbara R. AmbrosScholars have widely acknowledged the persistent ambivalence with which the Japanese religious traditions ...

An absolutely unique book, this is the Second World War in Burma as seen through the eyes of ordinary Japanese soldiers

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 4 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 1 Tables, black and white; 12 Illus...

Reducere. The book Warriors of Legend is one of the first of its kind, using a specific Japanese anime/manga series- the megahit Sailor Moon- to teach about ...

First book-length investigation of modern Japanese political thought and IR with a focus on non-western and indigenous Asian practices of IR.

Reducere. In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japan...

Zen has had a profound impact on the art and culture of Japan. Blair provides a visual journey through its influence on Japanese life, from calligr...

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Publisher: Kagero Oficyna WydawniczaAuthor(s): WALDEMAR GORALSKINumber of pages: 92Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 302 x 211 x 6Cover type: Paper...

This book explores censorship, particularly film and video censorship, in Japan in modern times. It shows how most censorship has been the film and...

The Dark Side of Japan is a collection of folk tales, black magic, protection spells, monsters and other dark interpretations of life and death fro...

The Sino-Japanese war was the longest struggle of the Second World War. It started in July 1937 and not getting much help from the outside world, t...

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Politics in Japan is undergoing a major transformation. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has,...

1945: a mushroom cloud rises 20, 000 feet into the sky. This is not from the bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. It is the remains of the battleship ...

This new history charts the development, production, deployment, and combat operations of Japan's tank forces between their inception in 1918 and t...

Reducere. Bushido: The Soul of Japan is, along with the classic text Hagakure by Tsunetomo Yamamoto (1659-1719), a study of the way of the samurai. A best-se...

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Publisher: Oficyna Wydawnicza KAGERO Damian MajsakAuthor(s): Dmitry MironovNumber of pages: 80Collection: Super Drawings in 3DPublication date: 201...

The essays collected here theorize the relation of unconscious fantasy and perversion to discourses of nation, identity, and history in Japan. By r...

Reducere. Bushido is the code of moral principles which the knights were required or instructed to observe. It is not a written code; at best it consists of ...

Reducere. September 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending the Second World War. In signing this tr...

The first of a two-part, exhaustively researched meditation on the astonishingly beautiful and intricate armour of the samurai. This volume focuses...

Reducere. Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization is the only concise overview of Japan's phenomenal impact on world pop culture available in English. Sur...

Reto Hofmann uncovers the ideological links between the fascist governments and cultures of Japan and Italy, shedding light on the formation of fas...

Bestselling author Giles Milton takes us on a fascinating Jacobean adventure.Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Giles MiltonIllustration(s): li...

How do teachers, who have chosen to settle down in one country, manage the difficulties of living and teaching English in that country? This book a...

Like many things Japanese, the Japanese legal system has its peculiarities... and Professor Jones applies his decades of legal and teaching experie...

The vibrant recreational mathematics culture of Japan presents puzzles that are often different from the classics of western literature. This book ...

Contributor(s): Author: Michael Dylan FosterIllustrator: Shinonome KijinMonsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts...

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An authoritative A-Z to the mythologies of the East, with 500 entries and 400 pictures.

Whereas most scholarship on Japanese Americans looks at historical case studies or the 1.5 generation assimilating, this pioneering anthology, Japa...

Many Allied POWs in the Pacific theater of World War II suffered terribly. But abuse wasn't a matter of Japanese policy, as is commonly assumed. Sa...

Reducere. Urban Migrants in Rural Japan provides a fresh perspective on theoretical notions of rurality and emerging modes of working and living in post-grow...

Reducere. Whereas most scholarship on Japanese Americans looks at historical case studies or the 1.5 generation assimilating, this pioneering anthology, Japa...

Reducere. On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan's northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20, 000 people, displaced 600, 000, and c...

Reducere. Since the Fukushima nuclear accident in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March 2011, Japan has seen a significant revival in its s...

Reducere. Alluring, nurturing, dangerous, and vulnerable the yamamba, or Japanese mountain witch, has intrigued audiences for centuries. What is it about the...

This study of Japanese prime minister Abe Shinzo (2012-2020) answers three questions: How could Abe Shinzo remain in power for nearly a decade? Wha...

In this last two decades, Japan has experienced slow economic growth, changed employment practices, population decline, an aging society, and an in...

DescriptionIn 1919, against a backdrop of a long history of anti-Asian nativism, a handful of Japanese families established Cortez Colony in a blea...

Patrick Galbraith examines Japanese "otaku, " their relationships with fictional girl characters, the Japanese public's interpretations of them as ...

The Russo-Japanese War was the first major conflict of the 20th century, as vast armies clashed in Manchuria incurring enormous casualties. This te...

DescriptionThis title tells the fascinating story of the development and deployment of the mighty Russian fleets, the pride of the Tsar, which went...

Healing Labor is an ethnography of how adult Japanese women working in Tokyo's sex industry experience and understand the contradictions that defin...