10,446円 Despite its rapid economic development, Japan lacks a large public relations industry and its role is viewed very differently from its Western counterparts. PR functions are handled predominantly in-house and a degree in a PR field is not a hiring requirement for those agencies which do operate. ...

9,285円 Spanning the 130-year period between the end of the Tokugawa Era and the end of the Cold War, this book introduces students to the formation, collapse, and rebirth of the modern Japanese state. It demonstrates how, faced with foreign threats, Japan developed a new governing structure to deal with...

5,470円 Prisons and Forced Labour in Japan examines the local, national and international significance of convict labour during the colonization of Hokkaido between 1881 and 1894 and the building of the Japanese empire. Based on the analysis of archival sources such as prison yearbooks and letters, as we...

10,280円 Whilst most facets of the Occupation of Japan have attracted much scholarly debate in recent decades, this is not the case with reforms relating to public health. The few studies of this subject largely follow the celebratory account of US-inspired advances, strongly associated with Crawford Sams...

19,021円 Japan is a mix of the old and the new, traditional and modern, and old fashion and innovative. It has traveled the road to a modern destination without totally losing sight of its traditions and values. Although some in Japan lament the passing of old ways, Japan has held on to a reasonable amoun...

150円 "D’autres pensent qu’étudier la Voie de la tactique ne peut servir à rien au moment où l’on en a besoin. S’il en est ainsi, il faut alors s’exercer à la tactique de telle façon qu’elle soit utile à n’importe quel moment et il faut l’enseigner de telle manière qu’elle soit applicable à tous les do...

4,637円 Baseball has been Japan's most popular sport for over a century. The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers analyzes Japanese baseball ethnographically by focusing on a single professional team, the Hanshin Tigers. For over fifty years, the Tigers have been the one of the country’s most watched and ta...

2,254円 »Sei du selbst die Veränderung.« - Dieses Buch enthält alle wichtigen Texte des großen Menschenrechtlers. Mahatma Gandhi setzte sich mit seinen Reden für ein unabhängiges Indien ein. Dies tat er mit einfachen und persönlichen Worten, die bis in die heutige Zeit ihre Gültigkeit haben. Die Texte un...

80円 Le problème soulevé en Extrême-Orient par la présente guerre russo-japonaise ne saurait détourner complètement notre attention du vieux problème balkanique qui, depuis des siècles, préoccupe les nations européennes. Il faudrait des volumes pour en retracer les différentes phases et étudier les so...

1,856円 Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645) is the most famous Samurai who ever lived. His magnum opus, the Go-Rin-Sho or Book of Five Rings is a classic that is still read by tens of thousands of people each yearーJapanese and foreigners alike. Alex Bennett's groundbreaking new translation of The Book of Five ...

150円 Musashi Miyamoto’s "The Book of Five Rings" is a classic Japanese text of samurai sword strategy written around 1643. Yet, it is so much more than just a manual on how best to wield a sword. The principles discussed in Musashi Miyamoto’s masterpiece can, in many respects, be applied to life as a ...

1,957円 As read on BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' **Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 'A completely extraordinary book . . . Delicately wrought, precise, lucid and strange as a dream' - Olivia Laing, author of The Garden Against Time**...