Japan Contemporary 1945 to Present
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Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose
by Kenneth 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...
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Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
by Bruce Feiler Publisher Comments “ A charming and incisive close-up of the most important part of the Japanese miracle- the making of a Japanese.”...
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Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
by Haruki Murakami Publisher Comments From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound. In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese...
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
by John W. Dower 
Synopsis A foremost historian examines Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II, giving readers the rich and turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, in a way never before attempted. 75 illustrations....
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Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club
by Anne Allison Publisher Comments In Nightwork, Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities. Allison performed the ritualized tasks of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many "hostess clubs": pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes, and making flattering or...
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Autobiography of a Geisha (57 Edition)
by Sayo Masuda Synopsis < P> Sayo Masuda was a geisha at a hot springs resort, where the realities of sex for sale are unadorned by the trappings of wealth and power. Remarkable for its wit and frankness, the book is a moving record of a woman's survival on the margins of...
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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...
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Goodbye Madame Butterfly: Sex, Marriage and the Modern Japanese Woman
by Sumie Kawakami Publisher Comments andquot;Smart and lively and thoughtful and moving, like a good Studs Terkel without encyclopedic pretensions.andquot; andmdash; Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, author of the best-selling A Series of Unfortunate Events andldquo;Full of rich details...
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Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Modern Japan
by Alex Kerr Publisher Comments A surprising assessment of the failures and successes of modern Japan. In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the many facets of Japan's recent, and chronic, crises -- from the failure of its banks and pension funds to the decline of its once...
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Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
by Richard J. Samuels Book News Annotation Has postwar Japanese security strategy been marked by incoherence and a lack of focus, as many commentators claim? Not according to Samuels (political science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), who argues in this historical analysis of Japanese...
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Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World
by Theodore C Bestor Publisher Comments Located only blocks from Tokyo's glittering Ginza, Tsukiji — the world's largest marketplace for seafood — is a prominent landmark, well known but little understood by most Tokyoites: a supplier for countless fishmongers and sushi chefs, and a...
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Millennial Monsters : Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (06 Edition)
by Anne Allison Synopsis Millennial Monsters explores the global popularity of Japanese consumer culture--including manga (comic books), anime (animation), video games, and toys--and questions the make-up of fantasies nand capitalism that have spurred the industry's growth....
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Speed Tribes: Days and Night's with Japan's Next Generation
by Karl Taro Greenfeld Publisher Comments Mitsunori Izumi, twenty-nine, sat on an imitation leather chair in the Wakao Wrecking Crew offices, sipping Bron brand cough syrup from a brown bottle and trying not to stare at the big, square Hino Truck Company clock on the wall directly opposite him...
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Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa
by Karin Muller Publisher Comments During a year spent in Japan on a personal quest to deepen her appreciation for such Eastern ideals as commitment and devotion, documentary filmmaker Karin Muller discovered just how maddeningly complicated it is being Japanese. In this book Muller...
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Generations in Touch: Linking the Old and Young in a Tokyo Neighborhood (Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)
by Leng Leng Thang Synopsis A dilemma long faced by western societies -- how to bring the generations together -- is also of growing concern in the east. In Japan, where, until recently, the extended family often lived under the same roof, social programs designed to facilitate...
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Frontiers of Social Research Japan & Bey
by Akira Furukawa Book News Annotation Furukawa (sociology and social work, Kwansei Gakuin U.) provides a historical perspective on Japanese responses to core issues in the sociology of social research. He introduces 13 essays by Asian sociologists and anthropologists exploring methods of...
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The Encyclopedia of Japanese pop culture
by Mark Schilling Synopsis 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...
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Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne
by Ben Hills Publisher Comments A portrait of Princess Masako, the Harvard- and Oxford-educated woman who sacrificed her career as a diplomat to marry Crown Prince Naruhito, offers a look into the mysterious world of Japan's imperial family....
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Confessions of a Yakuza
by Junichi Saga Publisher Comments This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn't a "good" life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; and the tale he has...
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Confronting Income Inequality in Japan: A Comparative Analysis of Causes, Consequences, and Reform
by Toshiak Tachibanaki Publisher Comments Contrary to general belief, and to Japan's own self-image, inequality of income and wealth distribution in Japan has grown in the past two decades. In this well-written and accessible book, Toshiaki Tachibanaki analyzes the movement toward more income...
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