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Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima (P.S.) Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima (P.S.)
by Stephen Walker

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A British filmmaker and documentary director tells the story of the bombing of Hiroshima in a new and dramatic way: a minute-by-minute account told from multiple perspectives, including American soldiers, Los Alamos scientists, and Japanese survivors. 16-... (read more)

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Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria Culture Wartime Imperial Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria Culture Wartime Imperial
by Louise Young

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A portrait of an empire: the first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria.... (read more)

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Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa
by Yukichi Fukuzawa

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Here is the autobiography of a remarkable man. Yukichi Fukuzawa's life covered 66 years between 1835 and 1901, a period which comprised greater and more extraordinary changes than any other in the history of Japan. In his country's swift transformation... (read more)

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Japanese Experience : a Short History of Japan (99 Edition) Japanese Experience : a Short History of Japan (99 Edition)
by W.g. Beasley

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The Japanese Experience is an authoritative history of Japan from the sixth century to the present day. Only a writer of W.G. Beasley's stature could render Japan's complicated past so concisely and elegantly. This is the history of a society and a... (read more)

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Modern Japan a Historical Survey 2ND Edition Modern Japan a Historical Survey 2ND Edition
by Mikiso Hane

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In this newly revised edition of his readable and thoughtful survey, Mikiso Hane presents the essential facts of modern Japanese history. He integrates political events with the cultural and economic activities of each period and is particularly... (read more)

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Sword and Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman Sword and Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman
by Peter Pagnamenta

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Sword and Blossom tells the tragic true story of an extraordinary love affair that began when a young Army officer fell in love with a Japanese woman in the early years of the twentieth century. Based on a treasure trove of more than eight hundred... (read more)

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Toyota's Assembly Line: A View from the Factory Floor Toyota's Assembly Line: A View from the Factory Floor
by Ryoji Ihara

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Anybody who is a dedicated Toyota driver and admirer of the Toyota Production System would be shocked to read of Ryoji Ihara's experience as a casual worker in a Toyota factory in Japan. As the Toyota Motor Company continues on its inexorable march to... (read more)

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Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women Pre-War J Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women Pre-War J
by Mikiso Hane

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In this book, for the first time, we can hear the startling, moving voices of adventurous and rebellious Japanese women as they eloquently challenged the social repression of prewar Japan. The extraordinary women whose memoirs, recollections, and essays... (read more)

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What Is Modernity?: Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi (Weatherhead Books on Asia) What Is Modernity?: Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
by Yoshimi Takeuchi

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Regarded as one of the foremost thinkers in postwar Japan, Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977) questioned traditional Japanese thought and radically reconfigured an understanding of the subject's relationship to the world. His works were also central in drawing... (read more)

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Japanese Culture 4TH Edition Japanese Culture 4TH Edition
by H Paul Varley

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Japanese Culture has been called "a masterpiece of much in little space" (Booklist). For more than two decades it has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. This widely used undergraduate text... (read more)

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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

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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)

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Modern Girls, Shining Stars, and the Skies of Tokyo: Five Japanese Women Modern Girls, Shining Stars, and the Skies of Tokyo: Five Japanese Women
by Phyllis Birnbaum

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The stunning biographical portraits in Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo, some adapted from essays that first appeared in The New Yorker, explore the lives of five women who did their best to stand up and cause more trouble than was... (read more)

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The Making of Modern Japan The Making of Modern Japan
by Marius B Jansen

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Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty years' engagement with Japan and its history, it is the... (read more)

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Japan in the Twenty-First Century: Environment, Economy, and Society Japan in the Twenty-First Century: Environment, Economy, and Society
by Pradyumna Karan

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The ancient civilization of Japan, with its Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, is also closely associated with all that is new and modern. Looking outward, Japan sees what it has become since Hiroshima: the world's second-largest economy, a source of... (read more)

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Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family
by Matthews M Hamabata

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This book is concerned with the lives of people known to be wealthy individuals whose families are engaged in private enterprise on regional, national, and international scales of operation. It documents the interplay of marital and filial relations in... (read more)

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Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa
by Karin Muller

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Looking to gain a competitive edge in her judo practice and a fresh perspective on her life, a documentary filmmaker commits to living in Japan for a year. She discovers in sometimes awkward, sometimes awesomely funny interactions just how maddeningly... (read more)

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Sword and Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman Sword and Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman
by Peter Pagnamenta

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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)

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Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West
by Lesley Downer

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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)

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Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
by Amy Lowell

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Three well-educated ladies wrote these diaries, among them the skilled writer Murasaki Shikibu (ca. 973-1025 a.d.). A lady-in-waiting to the Japanese Empress, she observed the upper classes with fine detail. The Sarashina Diary, begins with a 9-year-old... (read more)

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A Plague Upon Humanity A Plague Upon Humanity
by Daniel Barenblatt

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From 1932 to 1945, in a quest to develop germ warfare capability for the military of Imperial Japan, hundreds of Japanese doctors, nurses, and scientists willingly participated in what was referred to at the time as "the secret of secrets." Under the... (read more)

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