3,575円 In The Soul of Anime, Ian Condry explores the emergence of anime, Japanese animated film and television, as a global cultural phenomenon. Drawing on ethnographic research, including interviews with artists at some of Tokyo's leading animation studiosーsuch as Madhouse, Gonzo, Aniplex, and Studio ...

4,637円 Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L. Burns provides a close examination of the late-eighteenth-century intellectual movement kokugaku, which means "the study of our country.” Departing from earlier studies of kok...

3,840円 A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Kingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to the complex process by which Japan became both a modern nation and an imperial world power. Kim Bran...

4,637円 Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the “stuff” of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind in...

4,637円 Globalization is usually thought of as the worldwide spread of Westernーparticularly Americanーpopular culture. Yet if one nation stands out in the dissemination of pop culture in East and Southeast Asia, it is Japan. Pokémon, anime, pop music, television dramas such as Tokyo Love Story and Long ...

4,112円 Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty years' engagement with Japan and its history, it is the crowning work of our leading interpreter of the...

196円 A big continent that accounts for nearly 1/3 of the world's lands - Asia. Different countries in Asia hold different "national symbols" and "cultures" that appear similar to each other. Why don't we expand our perspectives through the symbols and anecdotes behind the landmarks of each country and...

267円  La nuit allait finir. Tout dormait dans la belle et joyeuse Osaka. Seul, le cri strident des sentinelles, s’appelant sur les remparts, traversait, par instants, le silence que rien ne troublait plus, hors la lointaine rumeur de la mer dans le golfe. Au-dessus de la grande masse sombre, form...

3,127円 This is a study of the origins and nature of Japanese imperialism from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895 through to 1945. Japan is the only Asian country in modern times to have built both a successful industrial economy and an empire, and it is Professor Beasley's contention that these two phen...

2,306円 Written by one of the worlds leading authorities on samurai, this witty, informative guide to the samurai class of Japan is presented as a training manual written by a fictional samurai lord. It offers lively and engaging coverage of every aspect of early 17th-century Japanese warrior culture, fr...

6,380円 Depictions of an alcohol-saturated Japan populated by intoxicated salarymen, beer dispensing vending machines, and a generally tolerant approach to public drunkenness, typify domestic and international perceptions of Japanese drinking. Even the popular definitions of Japanese masculinity are inte...

6,717円 The 1970s were a period of dramatic change in relations between Japan and the People's Republic of China (PRC). The two countries established diplomatic relations for the first time, forged close economic ties and reached political agreements that still guide and constrain relations today. This b...