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A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present
by Andrew Gordon
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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)

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The Postwar Japanese System: Cultural Economy and Economic Transformation
by William K Tabb
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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)

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Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami
by Gretel Ehrlich
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Seppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide
by Andrew Rankin
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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)

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Japan & the Enemies of Open Political Science
by D Williams
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The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan (Asia-Pacific)
by Barbara Hamill Sato
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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)

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Understanding Japanese society
by Joy Hendry
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Autobiography of a Geisha
by Sayo Masuda
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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)

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Yakuza Moon (09 Edition)
by Shoko Tendo
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The Forty-Seven Ronin Story
by John Allyn
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Sandakan Brothel #08: An Episode in the History of Lower-Class Japanese Women
by Tomoko Yamazaki
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Sword and Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman
by Peter Pagnamenta
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Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
by Giles Milton
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Permitted and Prohibited Desires
by Anne Allison
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Introducing Japan
by Donald Richie
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Modern Library Chronicles #11: Inventing Japan: 1853-1964
by Ian Buruma
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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)

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Geisha :the life, the voices, the art
by Jodi Cobb
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