History - Asia - Japan
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L'Empire Japonais et sa vie économiqueL'Empire Japonais et sa vie économiqueI. LEmpire du Japon resta inconnu lEurope jusquau XIIIe sicle, poque laquelle Rubruquis et Marco Polo en dvoilrent lexistence; mais ce nest gure quaprs larrive dans les les japonaises des jsuites portugais, cest--dire au XVIe sicle, que ce pays...
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La civilisation japonaiseLa civilisation japonaise - conférences faites à l'école spéciale des langues orientalesCONFRENCES FAITES A LCOLE SPCIALE DES LANGUES ORIENTALES PAR L O N D E R O S N Y PARIS ERNEST LEROUX, DITEUR LIBRAIRE DE LA SOCIT ASIATIQUE DE PARIS DE LCOLE DES...
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Le JaponLe JaponLe Japon prend peu de place dans les proccupations politiques de l'Europe, et cependant les vnements qui se passent dans ce pays prsentent, tous les points de vue, un intrt considrable, soit qu'on envisage la question en elle-mme, soit qu'on l'examine dans ses...
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Le Japon en 1866Le Japon en 1866 JAPON. Ce pays mrite une attention srieuse. Les lments de puissance vritable qu'il renferme et les avantages qu'il offre l'Occident, au point de vue des relations commerciales, donnent la question japonaise un intrt considrable. Par le spectacle que nous prsente...
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Letters from China and JapanLetters from China and JapanJohn Dewey, Professor of Philosophy in Columbia University, and his wife, Alice C. Dewey, who wrote the letters reproduced in this book, left the United States early in 1919 for a trip to Japan. The trip was eagerly embarked on,...
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Lost Japan: Last Glimpse of Beautiful JapanOriginally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over 30 years. Alex Kerr brings to life the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo's boardrooms during the heady Bubble Years, and tells the story...
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Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989A comprehensive English-language history of a beloved medium, Manga's First Century tells the story of the artists and fans who built a cultural juggernaut. Manga is the world's most popular style of comics. How did manga and anime--"moving manga"--become ubiquitous? Manga's First Century delves...
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Manga: A New History of Japanese ComicsA groundbreaking story of Japanese comics from their nineteenth-century origins to the present day The immensely popular art form of manga, or Japanese comics, has made its mark across global pop culture, influencing film, visual art, video games, and more. This book is the...
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March Was Made of Yarn: Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear MeltdownIn time for the one year anniversary of the 2011 earthquake in Japan, a collection of essays and stories by Japanese writers on the devastating disaster, its aftermath, and the resolve of a people to rebuild. On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake occurred...
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Miti and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975The focus of this book is on the Japanese economic bureaucracy, particularly on the famous Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), as the leading state actor in the economy. Although MITI was not the only important agent affecting the economy, nor was the...
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Mysterious JapanMysterious JapanA peculiar ocean, the Pacific. A large and lonely ocean with few ships and many rutty spots that need mending. Ploughing westward over its restless surface for a week, you come to the place where East meets West with a bump that dislocates...
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Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War"[A] reminder of just how horrible nuclear weapons are."--The Wall Street Journal "A devastating read that highlights man's capacity to wreak destruction, but in which one also catches a glimpse of all that is best about people."--San Francisco Chronicle "A poignant and complex picture...
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Nagasaki: The Last WitnessesThe second volume in a prize-worthy two-book series based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors about each of the atomic bomb drops, first in Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, that hastened the end of the Pacific War. On August 6, 1945, the United...
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Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its ColoniesBy the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of young men in the Japanese colonies, in particular Taiwan and Korea, had expressed their loyalty to the empire by volunteering to join the army. Why and how did so many colonial youth become...
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Network PowerThis book examines regional dynamics in contemporary east and southeast Asia, scrutinizing the effects of Japanese dominance on the politics, economics, and cultures of the area. The contributors ask whether Japan has now attained, through sheer economic power and its political and cultural consequences,...
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Newfoundland to Cochin ChinaNewfoundland to Cochin China - By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden CityThe favourable reception vouchsafed to "40,000 Miles over Land and Water" has induced me to yield to the kind wishes of many Friends and Constituents, and to record the impressions...
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NinjaThe definitive history of the ninja, based on a wealth of historical texts, local Japanese sources, and John Man's own treks across Asia"An immensely entertaining history, packed with splendidly blood-thirsty tales of derring-do, feats of endurance and self-sacrifice." --The GuardianOut of the violent chaos...
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No Surrender: My Thirty-Year WarIn the Spring of 1974, 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine army and police, hostile islanders, and eventually successive Japanese...
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Notes in JapanNotes in Japan E had left Hong-Kong enveloped in its usual spring fog, and for five long, weary days had steamed across the China Sea in regular monsoon weather, gray and wet and miserable, but during the fifth some rocky islands, outlying sentinels of...
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Okinawa: A Decorated Marine's Account of the Last Battle of World War IIPenguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion of Okinawa, the closing battle of World War II. Leckie is a...
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