Search Results: Japan / History from Infinity Books Japan

US: Kodansha International Ltd, 1999. As New. An exposition of the spirit of the samurai and the soul of the Japanese, wr itten by Japanese internationalist, Nitobe Inazo.

US: VIZ Media LLC, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged.(Signed By Author, First Edition) For nearly a century, Japanese writers gave voice to the anxieties of a nat ion headed inexorably toward war. Not just any war, but one that in the min ds of many would eventually--and inevitably--take place with Japan's neighb or across the Pacific, the United States. In the wake of U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry's first visit to Japan with his Black Ships in 1853, Japanese novelists and military analysts, alo ng with a few foreign counterparts, produced a dizzying array of prophetic visions of this coming conflict, creating a massive body of popular works t hrough which Japan would debate its own passage, however violent, into the modern, globalized era. Painstakingly researched by one of Japan's preemine nt men of letters, Tokyo Prefecture Vice Governor Naoki… Read More

U.S.A.: University of California Pre, 2001. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This model monograph is the first scholarly study to put the Ainu the nativ e people living in Ezo, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago at the center of an exploration of Japanese expansion during the seventeen th and eighteenth centuries, the height of the Tokugawa shogunal era. Inspi red by "new Western" historians of the United States, Walker positions Ezo not as Japan's northern "frontier" but as a borderland or middle ground. By framing his study between the cultural and ecological worlds of the Ainu b efore and after two centuries of sustained contact with the Japanese, the a uthor demonstrates with great clarity just how far the Ainu were incorporat ed into the Japanese political economy and just how much their ceremonial a nd material life not to mention… Read More

US: isbn. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "Not many non-Japanese are aware of the intense debate still ongoing in Japan over the blizzard of coded message traffic to Japan's Washington embassy on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Professor Iguchi, who was in Washington on the day the war began (as a schoolboy) has devoted years of efforts at primary and secondary research in order to piece together what transpired in the hours leading up to the attack on Hawaii."--Amazon.

US: Tuttle Shokai Inc, 2007. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

US: Heian, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. This book explains the beauty and meaning of designs of more than 850 crests.

US: Yale University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Good/No DJ as issued.

US: International House of Japan, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

US: NHK, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged.

US: Bloomsbury USA, 2014. Hardcover. New. From the stunning victory at Pearl Harbor to its dramatic reversal at Midwa y, the Imperial Japanese Navy swept all before it in its numerous victories in the Pacific and Far Eastern waters. The Imperial Japanese Navy in the P acific War pulls from many of Osprey's bestselling books on the subject in addition to the most recent research on the subject, including many sources from Japan, and is the most recent and accurate book on this fascinating f orce. Even after its setback at midway, the IJN remained a powerful force and inf licted sever setbacks on the US Navy at Guadalcanal and elsewhere. The Impe rial Japanese Navy focuses on the Japanese ships which fought the battles i n the Pacific including design details, where and when they were engaged an d their ultimate effectiveness. In addition, the construction, design and service history of each ship from destroyer si ze on up is included. A comprehensive survey of the submarine force is also included.… Read More

US: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This survey of contemporary Japan's impressive postwar political and economic development against a background of social and cultural stability has been expanded to cover the recent premierships of Mr. Nakasone and Mr. Takeshita.

US: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

USA: The Ronald Press Company, 1955. Hardback. Very Good/No DJ as Issued. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

US: Kodansha, 1973. First Edition. Paperback. Good. First edition paperback.

US: American Legacy Media, 2013. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Kamikaze squadrons recruited teenage boys and converted them into human bombs. These boys became suicide pilots whose sole purpose was to die for the Emperor. During World War II, the Kamikaze caused the greatest losses in the history of the United States Navy.At age 15, Yasuo Kuwahara entered military service where he suffered through basic training so brutal, nine men of his squadron committed suicide. After qualifying for fighter pilot school, he survived ferocious aerial combat and barely escaped death at the hands of the American enemy. Upon receipt of his final attack orders he returned home near Hiroshima to bid farewell to his family, but amazingly escaped his suicide mission due to one of the cruelest ironies of World War II.

US: Rosedog Pr, 2011. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Samurais must be perseverant and live on frugal food. Clenching to carry on with fortitude is virtuous, and they grow up being taught this way. Samura is strain for the clan and family valiantly and audaciously. Kiyomorrison Taira was once the most glorious man in the country with whom many aristocrats wanted to have a relationship, but he got lost in the dazz ling triumph. Although life is filled with relentless brutality, people do not forget it blooms with love and benevolence.

Tokyo, Japan: International House of Japan, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. The spine remains undamaged. Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-186) and index.

US: Minamata Disease Patients Al, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged.

US: University of Hawaii Press, 2013. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. What are we to make of contemporary newspapers in Japan speculating about t he possible connection between aquatic creatures and earthquakes? Of a city council deciding to issue evacuation advice based on observed animal behav ior? Why, between 1977 and 1993, did Japan's government spend taxpayer mone y to observe catfish in aquariums as part of its mandate to fund earthquake prediction research? All of these actions are direct legacies of the 1855 Ansei Edo earthquake, one of the major natural disasters of the period. In his investigation of the science, politics, and lore of seismic events in J apan, Gregory Smits examines this earthquake in a broad historical context. The Ansei Edo earthquake shook the shogun's capital during a year of special religious significance and at a time of particularly vigorous seismic activity. It was also a turning point because, according to the prevailing understanding of earthquakes at the time, it… Read More

Tokyo, Japan, Rutland, Vt: C. E. Tuttle Co, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged.