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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W Dower Publisher Comments Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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America and the Japanese Miracle: The Cold War Context of Japan's Postwar Economic Revival, 1950-1960 (Luther Hartwell Hodges Series on Business, Society, and the State) by Aaron Forsberg Publisher Comments This book is an ambitious attempt to place postwar economic history within the wider realm of international relations. American Historical Review [Forsberg] make[s] important contributions to the history of Cold War economic diplomacy. Journal of... (read more) List Price $77.50 Your price: $29.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki Publisher Comments No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story -- until now. "Many say I was the best geisha of my generation," writes Mineko Iwasaki. "And yet, it was a life that I found too constricting to... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West by Lesley Downer Publisher Comments Sadayakko was Japan's most notorious geisha--and its first international superstar. "Madame Sadayakko" is the true story of this extraordinary woman--muse to writers, artists, and fashion designers. Her adventures lift the veil on the secretive world of... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.98 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: $7.98 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: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Silk Weavers of Kyoto: Family & Work in a Changing Tradition by Tamara K Hareven Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-332) and index.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Harvard East Asian Monographs #317: When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation and Reintegration in Postwar Japan by Lori Watt Publisher Comments Following the end of World War II in Asia, the Allied powers repatriated over six million Japanese nationals from colonies and battlefields throughout Asia and deported more than a million colonial subjects from Japan to their countries of origin... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $29.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Family Crests of Japan by Stone Bridge Press Publisher Comments Bold, iconic designs have been used to symbolize family names in Japan from the time of the court nobles in the twelfth century. The sense of “family” has changed in modern Japan, but the crests’ high-contrast motifs and simple... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation by Veronica Chambers Publisher Comments Forget the stereotypes. Today's Japanese women are shattering them -- breaking the bonds of tradition and dramatically transforming their culture. Shopping-crazed schoolgirls in Hello Kitty costumes and the Harajuku girls Gwen Stefani helped make so... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Brief History of the Samurai: The Way of Japan's Elite Warriors (Brief History) by Jonathan Clements Publisher Comments From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the samurai warrior. The samurai emerged as a warrior caste in medieval Japan and would have a powerful influence on the history and culture of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army by Sabine Fruhstuck Publisher Comments Following World War II, Japan's postwar constitution forbade the country to wage war or create an army. However, with the emergence of the cold war in the 1950s, Japan was urged to establish the Self-Defense Forces as a way to bolster Western defenses... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $15.95 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 $31.99 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Brief History of the Samurai by Jonathan Clements Publisher Comments From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the samurai warrior. The samurai emerged as a warrior caste in medieval Japan and would have a powerful influence on the history and culture of... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima (P.S.) by Stephen Walker Publisher Comments A riveting, minute-by-minute account of the momentous event that changed our world forever On a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, a five-ton bomb—dubbed Little Boy by its creators—was dropped from an American plane onto the Japanese city... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 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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Health Inequalities in Japan: An Empirical Study of the Elderly Synopsis The life expectancy of the Japanese is among the highest in the world, and their preventive system to avoid nursing care is attracting international attention. Based on a large sample of senior citizens, this quantitative ground-breaking study examines... (read more) List Price $84.95 Your price: $60.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Appreciation of Japanese Culture by Donald Keene TOC Some Japanese landscapes -- The world of haikai poetry -- The creation of modern Japanese poetry -- Three modern novelists -- Some Japanese eccentrics -- The Japanese and the landscapes of war -- The translation of Japanese culture.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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