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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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The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back (John MacRae Books) by Charles Pellegrino Publisher Comments Drawing on the voices of atomic-bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices detonated over Japan changed life on Earth forever Last Train... (read more) Your price: $60.00 Used - Hardcover
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P Bix About the Author Herbert P. Bix grew up in Winthrop, Massachusetts, and earned his Ph.D. in history and Far Eastern languages from Harvard University. For the past thirty years he has written extensively on modern and contemporary Japanese history in leading journals in... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empires 2,600th Anniversary by Kenneth J. Ruoff Book News Annotation Ruoff (history, Portland State U.) examines public ceremony surrounding Japan's commemoration of the 2,600th anniversary of the founding of its empire to analyze the state of Japanese political identity in 1940 at the beginning of the wider war in the... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $27.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Making of Modern Japan by Kenneth B Pyle Publisher Comments Analyzing the dynamics of historical change, the text discusses the major forces in Japan's development from 1600 to the present day, including samurai officialdom, industrialization, militarism, and social values.... (read more) List Price $96.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Downfall : the End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (99 Edition) by Richard B. Frank Publisher Comments In a riveting narrative that includes information from newly declassified documents, acclaimed historian Richard B. Frank gives a scrupulously detailed explanation of the critical months leading up to the dropping of the atomic bomb. Frank explains how... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hiroshima in the Morning by Rahna Rizzuto Publisher Comments In this National Book Critics Award finalist memoir, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto wrestles with the most personal and epic issues of our time. In June 2001 she travels to Hiroshima to interview survivors of the atomic bomb, while her husband and two young sons... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House by James L. Huffman Publisher Comments This unique book portrays the evolution of Meiji Japan through the life of crusading journalist Edward H. House (1836-1901). In chapters that alternate between history and biography, James Huffman, shows how one man bridged continents--shaping American... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $31.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853 by George Feifer Publisher Comments On July 14, 1853, the four warships of America's East Asia Squadron made for Kurihama, 30 miles south of the Japanese capital, then called Edo. It had come to pry open Japan after her two and a half centuries of isolation and nearly a decade of intense... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government by Nakae Chomin Publisher Comments A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government takes the form of a debate between a spokesman for Western ideals of democracy and progress, and an advocate for adherence to traditional samurai values. Their discussion is moderated by the imperturbable... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake by Edwar Seidensticker Publisher Comments The Great Earthquake of 1923 left much of Tokyo desolate. Shitamachi, the Low City, heart of Tokyo's cultural life for centuries, was a smoking ruin--hundreds of blocks of wooden dwellings, teahouses, and entertainment quarters gone forever. Yet Tokyo... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan by Mikiso Hane Publisher Comments In this book, for the first time, we can hear the startling, moving voices of adventurous and rebellious Japanese women as they eloquently challenged the social repression of prewar Japan. The extraordinary women whose memoirs, recollections, and essays... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $22.14 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima by Stephen Walker Publisher Comments At 31,000 feet above Japan, Tom Ferebee sits hunched over his bombsight. Below him lies the primary target of an operation called "Special Mission Number 13" by the few military personnel aware of its existence — Hiroshima, a city of over 300,000... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Emergence of Modern Japan: An Introductory History Since 1853 by Janet E Hunter Synopsis A history of Japan from 1853 to the 1980s discussing its development through topics such as Japan's relationships with the West, industrial development, religious practice, politics, society and the role of the military.... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - 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: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Very Short Introductions #202: Modern Japan by Christop Goto Jones Publisher Comments Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products--from animated movies and computer games to cars, semiconductors, and... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture) by Donald Keene Publisher Comments The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among the Japanese people. Yet the single year in which Japanese forces occupied territory from Alaska to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn Publisher Comments A collection of Kwaidan or Weird Tales compiled by the Greek/British journalist, teacher, and storyteller Lafacdio Hearn. An essential read in Japanese folk tale studies.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix Publisher Comments A rich new biography of the Japanese emperor reveals a powerful man who successfully cultivated an image of reluctant king while manipulating important events behind the scenes for five decades. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Reprint... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan by Christopher Benfey Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-323) and index.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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