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Yoshiwara: Geishas, Courtesans, and the Pleasure Quarters of Old Tokyo (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) by Stephen Longstreet Publisher Comments For centuries, Yoshiwara was the famed pleasure center of Tokyo. An erotic world unmatched by the West was created by beautiful courtesans, geishas, dancers, actors and artists. To this "floating world" came the hedonists and the sensual pleasure hunters... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Everyday Life in Traditional Japan (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) by Charles J Dunn Publisher Comments Everyday Life in Traditional Japan paints a vivid portrait of Tokugawa Japan, a time when contact with the outside world was deliberately avoided and the daily life of the different classes consolidated the traditions that shaped modern Japan. Authentic... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki Publisher Comments andlt;Bandgt;No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story -- until now.andlt;/Bandgt; andlt;BRandgt; "Many say I was the best geisha of my generation," writes Mineko Iwasaki. "And yet, it... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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In Ghostly Japan (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) by Lafcadio Hearn Publisher Comments In Ghostly Japan collects twelve stories from celebrated author Lafcadio Hearn. Some of these stories are ghostly and ghastly, while others are wonderfully benign. Whether he's telling a ghost story or explaining a Buddhist proverb, Hearn's writings are... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Japanese Have a Word for It: The Complete Guide to Japanese Thought and Culture by Boye Lafay De Mente About the Author McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shinsengumi: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corp by Romulu Hillsborough Publisher Comments The Tokugawa Shogunate, a group of military governors who ruled Japan until the late 1800s, stayed in power for more than two centuries. Their fall was one of the most important events in Asian history. Also known as the Meiji Restoration, the shogun's... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Light of Tokyo by Jean Michel Berts Synopsis Following two magnificent Assouline volumes on Paris and New York, photographer Jean-Michel Berts turns his lens to Japan.... (read more) List Price $58.50 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Modern Japan by Alex Kerr Publisher Comments A surprising assessment of the failures and successes of modern Japan. In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the many facets of Japan's recent, and chronic, crises -- from the failure of its banks and pension funds to the decline of its once... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Living in Japan by Alex Kerr Publisher Comments Today's most exceptional Japanese homes So rich and unique is traditional Japanese architecture that it's hard to improve upon. Yet contemporary Japanese designers and architects keep finding new ways to refurbish and take inspiration from the ways of... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Sale - Hardcover
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Justice in Japan by Richard H. Mitchell Book News Annotation Between 1935 and 1937, 16 Japanese cabinet ministers, finance ministers, banking officials, and businessman stood trial for illegally profiting from the sale of stock held by the Bank of Japan. The judges eventually dismissed all the charges, saying... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Structure of Detachment: The Aesthetic Vision of Kuki Shuzo by Hiroshi Nara Publisher Comments Published in 1930, when Japan was struggling to define and assert its national and cultural identity, The Structure of Iki (Iki no kozo) re-introduced the Japanese to a sophisticated tradition of urbane and spirited stylishness (iki) that was forged in... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Tokyo from Edo to Showa 1867-1989: The Emergence of the World's Greatest City (Tuttle Classics) by Edward Seidensticker Publisher Comments Edward Seidensticker's Tokyo: From Edo to Showa, available here for the first time in a single volume, tells the story of Tokyo's transformation from the Shogun's capital in an isolated Japan to one of the most renowned modern cities in the world. With... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Encyclopedia of Japanese pop culture by Mark Schilling Publisher Comments In the West, Japanese culture comes in the form of Power Rangers, Godzilla movies, and Sanrio products, but of course the indigenous pop culture is much richer. Rather than focus on what the rest of the world has already encountered, Mark Schilling... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend by Christopher Ross Publisher Comments On November 25, 1970, the world renowned Japanese writer Yukio Mishima committed seppuku with his own antique sword. Mishimas spectacular suicide has been called many things: a hankering for heroism; a beautiful, perverse drama; a political protest... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tabloid Tokyo 2: 101 (All New) Tales of Sex, Crime and the Bizarre from Japan's Wild Weeklies by Mark Schreiber Publisher Comments In Tabloid Tokyo 2, the authors once again plunge into the pages of Japan's amazing weekly magazines to find more great stories that the Japanese are reading with unabashed gusto. Picking articles from the most outrageous new developments in the sex... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Japan Rising: The Iwakura Embassy to the USA and Europe by Kunitake Kume Publisher Comments In 1871 Japan sent a high-ranking delegation to the USA and Europe, to negotiate treaties and trading agreements and to investigate how it might modernise its political and economic institutions. Led by the Foreign Minister Prince Tomomi Iwakura, the... (read more) List Price $32.99 Your price: $13.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Japan's Relations with China (Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/RoutledgeCurzon) by Peng Er Lam Publisher Comments The essays in this collection examine Sino-Japanese political relations given the phenomenon of a rising China and a stagnating Japan. Questioning whether their relationship is one of cooperation or conflict, the book reviews China and Japans bilateral... (read more) List Price $188.50 Your price: $39.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Among Samurai and Shoguns: Japan, AD 1000-1700 by Time Life Publisher Comments Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Final Days (Paper) by Susan Orpett Long Publisher Comments In postindustrial societies, people must consciously define their individuality through the choices they make. Recently, death has become yet another realm of personal choice, making a good death one in which we die in our own way. Does culture matter in... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Charisma & Community Formation in Medieval Japan the Case of the Yugyo Ha 1300 To 1700 by S A Thornton Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-275) and index.... (read more) Your price: $18.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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