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Japan : Its History and Culture (4TH 05 Edition) by W. Scott Morton Publisher Comments Once a star of postwar industrial production and methods, Japan has encountered serious trouble with market forces in recent years. Social changes and departures from tradition are becoming more common in this conservative country. The revised edition of... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts by Haruo Shirane Publisher Comments Elegant representations of nature, explicitly the four seasons, fill a wide range of Japanese genres and media--from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremony, flower arrangement, and annual observances. Haruo Shirane shows, for the first time, how... (read more) Your price: $29.50 New - Hardcover
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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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Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai by Michael Dyla Foster Publisher Comments Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yôkai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias... (read more) Your price: $27.75 New - 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: $12.95 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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Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family by Matthews M Hamabata Publisher Comments This book is concerned with the lives of people known to be wealthy individuals whose families are engaged in private enterprise on regional, national, and international scales of operation. It documents the interplay of marital and filial relations in... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $4.50 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 $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Geisha by Liza Dalby Publisher Comments In this classic best-seller, Liza Dalby, the only non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha, offers an insider's look at the exclusive world of female companions to the Japanese male elite. Her new preface considers the geisha today as a vestige of... (read more) Your price: $7.50 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: $7.50 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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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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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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The Mikado's Empire: A History of Japan from the Age of Gods to the Meiji Era (660 BC - AD 1872) by William Elliot Griffis Publisher Comments In its day the most popular book on the then-mysterious nation of Japan, this volume covers the history and culture of Japan from the earliest times to the Meiji Restoration of 1868. William Elliot Griffis(18431928) was an educator and writer and a... (read more) List Price $11.96 Your price: $10.61 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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 L 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: $5.95 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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