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The Rape of Nanking
by Iris Chang  
Publisher Comments In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered -- a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
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Modern Japan: Modern Japan, 2nd Edition
by Elise K. Tipton Publisher Comments This thoroughly updated edition provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan. Ranging from the Tokugawa period to the present day, the book charts the country's evolution into a modernized,...
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The Lost Wolves of Japan (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
by Brett Walker Synopsis NEW IN PAPERBACKIn pre-modern Japan, wolves were worshipped as sacred; with the spread of rabies in the 18th century, they became feared and hunted; by 1905 wolves had disappeared from the country. In this intriguing book, Brett Walker examines how and...
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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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Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal
by Matsuo Basho Publisher Comments Basho(16441694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. He made his living as a teacher and writer of Haiku and is celebrated for his many travels around Japan, which he recorded in travel journals. This translation of his most mature journal, Oku-No...
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Modern History of Japan : From Tokugawa Times To the Present (03 Edition)
by Andrew Gordon Publisher Comments In The Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Andrew Gordon paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. He takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal...
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Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan (Asia Perspectives)
by Donald Keene Publisher Comments During Yoshimasa's reign, the aesthetic taste of the Japanese was shaped: the nu theater flourished, Japanese gardens were developed, and the tea ceremony had its origins in a small room at the Silver Pavilion. Flower arrangement, ink painting, and shoin-...
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The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
by Roger J Davies Publisher Comments In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture. Readers of this book will gain a clear understanding of what really makes the Japanese, and their society, tick. Among the topics explored...
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History of Japan to 1334
by George Sansom Synopsis The author has attempted to eschew theoretical assumptions about human societies and confined himself to a straightforward narrative. He has made use of the work of leading Japanese historians, and consulted primary sources....
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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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Making of Modern Japan (2ND 96 Edition)
by Kenneth B. Pyle Publisher Comments Second edition....
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Everyday Life in Traditional Japan (Tut Books. S)
by Charles J Dunn About the Author Charles Dunn's research into Kabuki and puppet drama at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, brought him into contact with various aspects of traditional Japan....
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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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Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
by William E Deal Publisher Comments andbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan spans the beginning of the Kamakura period in 1185 through the end of the Edo (Tokugawa) period in 1868. The medieval and early modern eras in Japan were largely shaped by the rise of the warrior class...
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The Ways of the Samurai
by Carol Gaskin Publisher Comments For more than 700 years Japan was dominated by a military caste-the samurai. To the Western mind these fearsome warriors-samurai, the masterless ronin, and the assassin ninja-have always been a source of mystery and wonder, combining the idealism of...
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The Samurai and the Sacred (General Military)
by Stephen Turnbull Synopsis The samurai were celebrated warriors, but they were also deeply spiritual men whose religious beliefs sustained and inspired their forays into battle. In this entirely original work, Stephen Turnbull, a leading authority on Japanese history and author of...
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The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (Modern Library War)
by John Toland Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [883]-904) and index....
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Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan
by Junichi Saga
Publisher Comments Over 50 reminiscences of pre-modern Japan — illustrations of a way of life that has virtually disappeared. Voted "Best Book of the Year" by Japan's foreign press. This is a collective biography, based on interviews taped by a small-town doctor...
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Manchurian Legacy : Memoirs of a Japanese Colonist (99 Edition)
by Kazuko Kuramoto
Synopsis Kazuko Kuramoto was born in Dairen, Manchuria, in 1927, at the peak of Japanese expansionism in Asia. Dairen and neighboring Port Arthur were important colonial outposts on the Liaotung Peninsula; the train lines established by Russia and taken over by...
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Shutting Out the Sun : How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation (07 Edition)
by Michael Zielenziger Publisher Comments The world's second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America as the leading global economic powerhouse. But the country failed to recover from the staggering economic collapse of the early 1990s. Today it confronts an array of...
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