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A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present by Andrew Gordon Publisher Comments A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Second Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Re-Inventing Japan: Time Space Nation (Japan in the Modern World) by Tessa Morris Suzuki Publisher Comments An intellectual tour de force, Re-Inventing Japan is a major effort to rethink the contours of Japanese history, culture, and nationally.... (read more) List Price $28.75 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Introduction To Japanese Culture by Daniel (edt) Sosnoski Publisher Comments Its literature, music, art and cuisine embody the richness of Japan's renowned culture. Preserved for centuries in its highly independent and utterly unique rituals, festivals, and ethics, Japanese culture may now seem utterly Westernized—yet... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan: For the Use of Travellers and Others (Stone Bridge Classics) by Basil H Chamberlain Publisher Comments An engaging collection about everything from the abacus to zoology in Japan, designed to preserve knowledge about a society that was modernizing beyond recognition. This book remains an erudite source of information about culture, history, art, religion,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai by Michael Dyla Foster Publisher Comments "At once playful and profound, scholarly and scintillating, Pandemonium and Parade not only records but also enacts the uncanny presence of yokai in Japanese history. Seen through the lens of yokai, this book richly considers how the passing of time... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $19.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Saying Yes to Japan: How Outsiders Are Reviving a Trillion Dollar Services Market by Tim Clark and Carl Kay Publisher Comments "Saying Yes to Japan" examines the history and future of Japan's service sector, exposing structural shortcomings and offering innovative ways to take advantage of the trillion dollar hole in the nation's domestic economy. Revealing analyses of the real... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Heritage of Japanese Civilization by Albert M. Craig Publisher Comments 'For survey courses in the History of Asia and the History of Japan. This brief survey of the long and rich history of Japan, written by one of the world's leading scholars in the field, provides an overall framework for understanding this... (read more) List Price $49.15 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The River with No Bridge (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) by Sue Sumii Publisher Comments Written during the 1960s, this courageous work explores the intolerance and bigotry faced daily by Japan's largest minority group, the Burakumin.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Modern Japan a Historical Survey 2ND Edition by Mikiso Hane Publisher Comments In this newly revised edition of his readable and thoughtful survey, Mikiso Hane presents the essential facts of modern Japanese history. He integrates political events with the cultural and economic activities of each period and is particularly... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan by Basil Hall Chamberlain Publisher Comments An engaging collection about everything from the abacus to zoology in Japan, designed to preserve knowledge about a society that was modernizing beyond recognition. This book remains an erudite source of information about culture, history, art, religion,... (read more) List Price $11.96 Your price: $10.61 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan by Helen Hardacre Publisher Comments Helen Hardacre provides new insights into the spiritual and cultural dimensions of abortion debates around the world in this careful examination of mizuko kuyo--a Japanese religious ritual for aborted fetuses. Popularized during the 1970s, when religious... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $25.69 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945 by Gail Lee Bernstein Publisher Comments In thirteen wide-ranging essays, scholars and students of Asian and women's studies will find a vivid exploration of how female roles and feminine identity have evolved over 350 years, from the Tokugawa era to the end of World War II. Starting from the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chrysanthemum & the Sword Patterns Of by Ruth Benedict Publisher Comments A recognized classic of cultural anthropology, this book explores the political, religious, and economic life of Japan from the seventh century through the mid-twentieth, as well as personal family life.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Japan a Short History by John Gillespie Publisher Comments Provides a concise illustrated history of Japan, following the imperial eras chronologically, and highlighting the principal personalities, critical events, and aesthetic achievements from earliest times to the present day.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shinto and the State, 1868-1988 (Studies in Church & State) by Helen Hardacre Publisher Comments Helen Hardacre, a leading scholar of religious life in modern Japan, examines the Japanese state's involvement in and manipulation of shinto from the Meiji Restoration to the present. Nowhere else in modern history do we find so pronounced an example of... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Japan: Season by Season by Sandrine Bailly Publisher Comments Illustrations and photographs, each paired with an eloquent quotation, take the reader on a tour of the Land of the Rising Sun in Japan. The images include some of the earliest photographs taken in Japan, in addition to the... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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The Japanese Experience (History of Civilisation) by W G Beasley Publisher Comments The Japanese Experience is an authoritative history of Japan from the sixth century to the present day. Only a writer of W.G. Beasley's stature could render Japan's complicated past so concisely and elegantly. This is the history of a society and a... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Women in the Language and Society of Japan: The Linguistic Roots of Bias by Naoko Takemaru Publisher Comments Feminist critics have long considered language a primary vehicle for the transmission of sexist values in a society. This much-needed sociolinguistic critique examines the representation of women in traditional Japanese language and society. Derogatory... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $27.74 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Giants of Japan : the Lives of Japan's Most Influential Men and Women (99 Edition) by Mark Weston Publisher Comments Giants of Japan brings to life fifteen centuries of Japanese history through lively biographical sketches of the great men and women who have shaped this fascinating and complex country. Covering industry, the arts, religion, and politics, the book... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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