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Business and Politics in Japan by James Babb Publisher Comments Business and Politics in Japan is a much-needed, up-to-date analysis of the major business leaders, firms, and politicians in Japan. James Babb covers all key areas in depth: policy-making, business organization, political finance, and global pressures... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Material Child by Merry White Publisher Comments As she describes the youth culture of Japan, Merry White draws comparisons with the interests and activities pursued by teenagers in the United States and the contrasting attitudes of adults in Japan and the U.S. towards adolescence. The result is both... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation by Karel Van Wolferen Publisher Comments A full-scale examination of the inner workings of Japan's political and industrial system.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose by Kenneth B Pyle Publisher Comments Japan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the "lost decade" of the 1990s, Japan is quietly, stealthily awakening. As Japan prepares to become a major player in the strategic struggles... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Hiroshima by John Hersey Publisher Comments On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Noto, an Unexplored Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell Synopsis Toward the middle of the afternoon we reached a part of the coast locally famous or infamous, for the two were one; a stretch of some miles where the mountains made no apology for falling abruptly into the sea. Sheer for several hundred feet, the shore... (read more) List Price $11.90 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sources of Japanese Tradition: Volume 1 by Wm Theodore De Bary Publisher Comments To provide an understanding of the background of contemporary Japanese civilization, the editors present material that illustrates Japanese thought since earliest times. The traditions represented range from early Shinto and Buudhism to Confucianism... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter by Shoko Tendo Publisher Comments Born to a wealthy and powerful yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lived the early years of her life in luxury. However, when she was six, everything changed: her father was jailed, and the family fell into debt. Bullied by her classmates because of her father's... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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: $3.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons from the Tokyo Riot Police by Robert Twigger Publisher Comments Adrift in Tokyo, translating obscene rap lyrics for giggling Japanese high school girls,, "thirtynothing" Robert Twigger comes to a revelation about himself: He has never been fit nor brave. Guided by his roommates, Fat Frank and Chris, he sets out to... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan by Giles Milton Publisher Comments An eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg In 1611, the merchants of London's East India Company received a mysterious letter from Japan, written several years previously by a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Japanese Society by Chie Nakane Synopsis "A brilliant wedding of 'national character' studies and analyses of small societies through the structural approach of British anthropology. One is of course reminded of Ruth Benedict's Chrysanthemum and the Sword which deals also with Japanese national... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920 (Philip E. Lilienthal Books) by Thomas C Smith Publisher Comments Native Sources is a collection of seminal essays on the demographic, economic, and social history of Tokugawa and modern Japan by one of the most eminent historians of Japan in this country. Gathered together for the first time and made accessible to... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan by Giles Milton Publisher Comments With all the adventure and bloodcurdling battle scenes of his earlier book, "Nathaniel's Nutmeg," an acclaimed historian dazzles readers with the true story of William Adams, the first Englishman to set foot in Japan (and the inspiration for James... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History by Janet E Hunter Publisher Comments This is a concise, reliable guide to the people, places, events, and ideas of significance from the Meiji Restoration to the present.... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Speed Tribes: Days and Night's with Japan's Next Generation by Karl Taro Greenfeld Publisher Comments This foray into the often violent subcultures of Japan dramatically debunks the Western perception of a seemingly controlled and orderly society.... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Introducing Japan by Donald Richie Publisher Comments From the metropolitan bustle of busy, modern Tokyo to the serenity of classical Kyoto, from the northern frontier land of snowy Hokkaido to distinctly colorful Kyushu and Okinawa in the southwest, Japan is a country of striking contrasts and frequent... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Japan, the Toothless Tiger by Declan Hayes Publisher Comments The current economic and political balance of power in Asia is shifting away from Japan, which once dominated Asia through sheer financial muscle, to China, which is beginning to fill the vacuum left by the gradual U.S. withdrawal from the region. Now... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Rise of the Japanese Corporate System: The Inside View of a MITI Official by Koji Matsumoto Publisher Comments This book is essential reading for all those interested in the Japanese economic miracle. Japan's economy is invariable seen as a capitalist system, and a consideration of the elements upon which the Japanese economy is founded seems to lead inexorably... (read more) Your price: $4.98 Used - Hardcover
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