1,243円 The riveting true story of Japan's top secret plan to change the course of World War II using a squadron of mammoth submarines a generation ahead of their time In 1941, the architects of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor planned a bold follow-up: a potentially devastating air raidーthis time a...

1,657円 Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584-1645) is the most revered and celebrated swordsman in Japanese history; unfortunately, our modern portrait of this folk hero is derived mainly from popular books, comics, and film, with little heed paid to the early records by men who knew Musashi, practiced with Musashi...

5,300円 In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century. This term, coined by the production designer Yoshino Nobutaka, refers to the perception that shadows add depth and mystery. Miyao analyzes how this notion beca...

661円 This series of illustrated articles introduced Japan and the Japanese people to the American public in the mid nineteenth century. The impressions of the printed pictures and the words illustrating them were one of the elements that defined Japanese culture in the American mind for many years aft...

605円 "A FANTASY OF FAR JAPAN OR SUMMER DREAM DIALOGUES" was originally published in 1905. The book "depicts Japanese ideals and notions at the turn of the century, as well as some historical facts which seemed likely to interest those of the sympathetic Western public who may be inclin...

1,657円 After more than two centuries of civil strife Japan was finding its way back to peace and order during the Period of Unification (1573-1615). The final drive came in the fall of 1600, when the massed eastern and western warlords faced each other in the decisive Battle of Sekigahara, in which ever...

1,867円 In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrific terrorist attack on Japanese soil that shook the entire world. On a clear spring day in 1995, five members of a religious cult unleashed poison gas on the Tokyo subway system. In attempt to discov...

661円 This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE READER THE MAIDEN’S TOMB KAGEKIYO TAMURA THE SUMIDA RIVER ENGLISH BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE NO

12,933円 This book explores the historical writings of postwar Japanese Marxists - who were, and who continue to be, surprisingly numerous in the Japanese academic world. It shows how they developed in their historical writing ideas of 'radical nationalism', which accepted presupposed ideas of Japan's 'et...

661円 Inhalts-Verzeichnis Zur Einführung Juki-onna Der weiße Fuchs Urashima Taro Wenn man mit Kobolden tanzt Neid bringt Leid Der schlaue Polizist Der Abt des Klosters Yakhusi List geht über Gewalt Die Kröte von Osaka und die von Kyoto Der Affe und der Sake Die Auster Der Sperling mit abgeschnittener Z...

2,892円 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II. Drawing on a vast ran...

87円 Japanese wood cuts from the early 1800's Over 30 pages. Take a look at the beauty.