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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 $39.95 Your price: $26.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Postwar Japanese System: Cultural Economy and Economic Transformation by William K Tabb Publisher Comments While other industrialized and developing countries look towards Japan as an economic model, the political, cultural, and social arrangements that have so far allowed Japan to succeed are eroding. In particular, Japan faces a system of industrial... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami by Gretel Ehrlich Publisher Comments A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Seppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide by Andrew Rankin Publisher Comments This astonishing book charts the history and practice of ritual samurai suicide from ancient times until the 20th century through primary sources, both literary and historical, many of them never before translated into English. The author has worked from... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Japan & the Enemies of Open Political Science by D Williams Publisher Comments "Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science" argues that Eurocentric blindness is a scientific failing, not a moral one. In a way true of no other political system, Japan's greatness has the potential to enliven and reform almost all the main... (read more) List Price $81.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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
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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: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Yakuza Moon (09 Edition) 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: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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
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Sandakan Brothel #08: An Episode in the History of Lower-Class Japanese Women by Tomoko Yamazaki Publisher Comments The first English translation of Sandakan, a pioneering work on Karayuki-san, impoverished Japanese young women sent abroad to work as prostitutes form the 1860s to the 1920s.... (read more) List Price $30.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sword and Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman by Peter Pagnamenta Publisher Comments In 1904, when thirty-four-year-old British Army captain Arthur Hart-Synnot was sent to Japan to learn the language of his country's new ally, romance was the furthest thing from his mind. At least five generations of the Hart family had served in the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West by Lesley Downer Publisher Comments Sadayakko was Japan's most notorious geisha--and its first international superstar. "Madame Sadayakko" is the true story of this extraordinary woman--muse to writers, artists, and fashion designers. Her adventures lift the veil on the secretive world of... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan by Giles Milton Publisher Comments With all the adventure and bloodcurdling battle scenes of his earlier book, "Nathaniel's Nutmeg," an acclaimed historian dazzles readers with the true story of William Adams, the first Englishman to set foot in Japan (and the inspiration for James... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Japan: The Childless Society? by Muriel Jolivet Publisher Comments Disillusioned by long hours at home alone and by demands from the older generation, Japanese women are marrying later, resulting in a sharp decline in the Japanese birth rate. Japan: The Childless Society considers the reasons why Japanese women are... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Permitted and Prohibited Desires by Anne Allison Publisher Comments A fascinating exploration of the varied culture of sex and sexuality, power and gender dynamics, in contemporary Japan.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Introducing Japan by Donald Richie Publisher Comments From the metropolitan bustle of busy, modern Tokyo to the serenity of classical Kyoto, from the northern frontier land of snowy Hokkaido to distinctly colorful Kyushu and Okinawa in the southwest, Japan is a country of striking contrasts and frequent... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $3.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Library Chronicles #11: Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 by Ian Buruma Publisher Comments In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japans history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Geisha :the life, the voices, the art by Jodi Cobb Publisher Comments With 77 full-color... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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