Poetry Month!
 
 

Special Offers see all

Enter to WIN!

Weekly drawing for $100 credit. Subscribe to our Specials newsletter for a chance to win.
Privacy Policy

More at Powell's


Japan


Used Aisles


spacer

Japan
Used Books

There are 228 books in this aisle.

Featured Titles in Japan - Used Books
Page 1 of 12 next

Hiroshima
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: $3.71
Used - Mass Market

add to wish list


The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto (Vintage Departures)
The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto (Vintage Departures)
by Pico Iyer
Publisher Comments
When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the... (read more)

List Price $14.95
Your price: $6.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld
Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld
by David E Kaplan
Publisher Comments
A fascinating and authoritative expose of Japanese organized crime, from its earliest beginnings to today's global expansion.... (read more)

List Price $24.95
Your price: $16.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Modern Japan
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... (read more)

List Price $18.95
Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Geisha: A Life
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... (read more)

List Price $16.00
Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Shinsengumi : Shogun's Last Samurai Corps (05 Edition)
Shinsengumi : Shogun's Last Samurai Corps (05 Edition)
by Hillsborough
Publisher Comments
The Tokugawa Shogunate, a group of military governors who ruled Japan until the late 1800s, stayed in power for more than two centuries. Their fall was one of the most important events in Asian history. Also known as the Meiji Restoration, the shogun's... (read more)

List Price $29.95
Your price: $15.00
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


Japan's Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity
Japan's Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity
by Michae Weinerm
Publisher Comments
Based on original research, Japan's Minorities provides a clear historical introduction to the formation of individual minorities, followed by an analysis of the contemporary situation. This second edition identifies and explores the six principal... (read more)

List Price $54.50
Your price: $22.00
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
by Christopher Benfey
Publisher Comments
When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to "Old Japan," with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance... (read more)

List Price $16.00
Your price: $10.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan (Asia-Pacific)
The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan (Asia-Pacific)
by Barbara Hamill Sato
Publisher Comments
Presenting a vivid social history of “the new woman” who emerged in Japanese culture between the world wars, The New Japanese Woman shows how images of modern women burst into Japanese life in the midst of the urbanization, growth of the... (read more)

List Price $23.95
Your price: $12.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Tokyo Notes & Anecdotes: Natsukashii
Tokyo Notes & Anecdotes: Natsukashii
by Bruce Mccormack
Publisher Comments
Tokyo Notes & Anecdotes: Natsukashii is Bruce McCormack's story of living and working for ten years in tumultuous Tokyo, Japan. How he came to terms with it and with his gaijin (foreigner) self is informative, funny and poignant.... (read more)

List Price $32.50
Your price: $8.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation
The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation
by Karel Van Wolferen
Publisher Comments
A full-scale examination of the inner workings of Japan's political and industrial system.... (read more)

List Price $24.00
Your price: $3.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Kwaidan
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: $4.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Japan's Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in the 21st Century (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations)
Japan's Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in the 21st Century (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations)
by Jeff Kingston
Publisher Comments
In the 1990s the phenomenal growth of the Japanese economy ground to a shuddering halt and the country was subsequently crippled by enormous and ongoing political, economic and social problems. This accessible and engaging textbook for all students of... (read more)

List Price $56.95
Your price: $29.00
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Understanding Japanese society
Understanding Japanese society
by Joy Hendry
Publisher Comments
This is a welcome new edition of this bestselling textbook. It provides a clear, accessible and readable introduction to Japanese society which does not require any previous knowledge of the country. Fully updated, revised and expanded, the 3rd edition... (read more)

List Price $19.99
Your price: $11.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Autobiography of a Geisha
Autobiography of a Geisha
by Sayo Masuda
Publisher Comments
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 Japanese... (read more)

List Price $24.95
Your price: $11.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter
Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter
by Shoko Tendo
Publisher Comments
Born to a wealthy and powerful yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lived the early years of her life in luxury. However, when she was six, everything changed: her father was jailed, and the family fell into debt. Bullied by her classmates because of her father's... (read more)

List Price $11.95
Your price: $6.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (Modern Library War)
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.... (read more)

List Price $21.95
Your price: $13.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Forty-Seven Ronin Story
The Forty-Seven Ronin Story
by John Allyn
Publisher Comments
47 Ronin Story is the classic Japanese story of Lord Asano of Ako and one of the bloodiest vendettas in Japan's feudal history. In a shocking clash between the warriors and the merchant class of seventeenth century Japan, there emerged the most unlikely... (read more)

Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Giving Up the Gun
Giving Up the Gun
by Noel Perrin
Synopsis
Was there ever a time when a civilization, technically sophisticated, and in full possession of its senses, reverted in an earlier, less advanced technology? You bet - Japan, 1543-1879. During this period Japan effectively prohibited all manufacture of... (read more)

List Price $12.95
Your price: $8.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Sumo: A Thinking Fan's Guide to Japan's National Sport (Tuttle Classics)
Sumo: A Thinking Fan's Guide to Japan's National Sport (Tuttle Classics)
by David Benjamin
Publisher Comments
Sumo is a fresh and funny introduction to the fascinating world of sumo, Japan's national sport. Author David Benjamin peels away the veneer of sumo as a cultural treasure and reveals it as an action-packed sport populated by superb athletes who employ... (read more)

List Price $17.95
Your price: $12.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


1 3 4 5 ... 12 next»


There are 228 books in this aisle.

This way to more aisles in Japan
spacer
spacer
  • back to top
Follow us on...




Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.