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The Rising Sun

by John Toland

John Toland was one of the most widely read military historians of the twentieth century. His many books include The Last 100 Days; Ships in the Sky; Battle: The Story of the Bulge; But Not in Shame; Adolf Hitler; and No Man’s Land. Originally from Wisconsin, he lived in Connecticut for many years with his wife.

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Battleground Atlantic : How The Sinking Of A Single Japanese Submarine Assured The Outcome Of World War II

by Billings, Richard N

New York, New York: New American Library - Penguin Group. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 2006. First Printing. Hard Cover. 311 pages: 6.25 x 9.25 in.: 1.6: KB#006926: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Printing Number Line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). "What If The Japanese Had Resorted To The 'Dirty Bomb'? On June 24, 1944, U. S. Navy warplanes patrolling the Atlantic attacked and sank a Japanese submarine, the I-52. It was an event of enormous... Read more about this item

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£25.20

十二時之書. [Jyuuniji no Sho]. [Book of Twelve Poems]

by [TAKEI TAKEO]. 武井武雄

Tokyo.: 私刊豆本.. Limited edition of 300 signed copies.. Showa 17 [1942].. 15 folded leaves delightfully illustrated with colour lithographs showing Japanese clocks and other time pieces by well-known artist and author Takeo Takei. Japanese four hole stab string binding, pictorial covers. A little very light wear. Very good. Influential Japanese artist Takeo Takei (1894 -1983) is probably best known for his children's book illustrations but his work was far from limited to this... Read more about this item

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£705.10

A Study of Ancient Ships of Japan. Floats. Volume IX. Part I Floats Sec I - III.

by NISHIMURA, SHINJI

Tokyo: The Society of Naval Architects.. 1934- 1936.. 3 volumes which make up the complete floats section of A Study of Ancient Ships of Japan. Volume II Part 1. Floats Sec. 1. The Hisago-bune or Calabash Boat. Revised and enlarged edition. Black and white line illustrations and photographic plates, v + 86pp. Volume IX Part 1. Floats Sec. 11. The Kako-no-kawa or Deer-Skin. Black and white line illustrations and photographic plates, iv + 87 - 128pp. Volume X Part I. Floats Sec. III. The Hani-bune or... Read more about this item

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£757.34

Untitled Japanese Woodblock Print of a Sunflower.

by IKEDA DUIGETSU. 池田瑞

[Japan].. [circa1950s].. Colour woodblock print, 35.7 x 28 cms; 46.7 x 34.1 cms (sheet size), artist's signature and chop lower right, adhesive residue to upper and lower margins from previous matting (outside image area), otherwise very good, bright condition. Lovely Japanese woodblock print of a sunflower, with artist's signature and seal in the image at lower right. Printed on thick art paper, with burring from the baren on verso. Ikeda Duigetsu (1877-1944), specialised in flower painting. He in... Read more about this item

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£169.75

大日本海陸軍人軍用器尽. [Dainihon kairiku gunjin gunyōkizukushi]. [Japanese Military Service Equipment]

by 堀切玉蔵

Horikiri Tamakura].* 堀切玉蔵. Meiji 37 [1904]. Colour woodblock showing 30 examples of military service equipment, 24.3 cm x 35 cm Woodblock print showing the equipment used by the Japanese army and navy. Floats are called Ukifukuro and you can see the difference from the present day. It is an interesting example of both a ”zukushi-e", or series picture, and a Omocha-e, a toy picture which were enjoyed by both children and adults. .

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£182.80

[日本軍政下スマトラ島関連報告書. 5冊. [Nihongunseika Sumatoratō kanren hokokusho. 5-satsu].] [Five Reports on Sumatran Regional Areas by the Japanese Military Government].

by JAPANESE MILITARY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

No details of publisher.. Circa1942.. Five mimeographed stapled booklets, 26 x 18 cm, [26], [8], [50], [16], [24] pp (including wrappers) on folded sheets, 3 folding charts, text diagrams and tables, paper browning, some soiling and discolouration and occasional ink marking in the text, lower wrapper one booklet detached, but in still in sound condition. A set of unpublished mimeographed Japanese military documents containing detailed information about various parts of the Tapanuli Regency of Sumatra... Read more about this item

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£652.88

The River Ki. [Kinokawa. English]

by Ariyoshi, Sawako, 1931-1984.有吉佐和子 [Mildred Tahara, trans.; S. Katakura, jacket design]

Tokyo : Kodansha International ; New York ; San Francisco : distributed in the United States through Harper & Row, 1980., 1980. Very Good. 1st edition ; 243 pp. ; map ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0870113852 (Kodansha International/USA); 9780870113857 (Kodansha International/USA) LCCN: 79-66240 ; LC: PL845.R5; Dewey: 895.6/35 ; OCLC: 6644428 ; translated by Mildred Tahara. ; dark red clpoth with grey lettering, in color photographic dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, labels, pocket ; "The River Ki, short and swift and... Read more about this item

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£36.58

Japanese in Thirty Hours (30) : First Course in Japanese Language for Either Class Room Use or for Self Study. Æü ËÜ ¸ì »° ½½ »þ ´Ö

by Kiyooka, Eiichi. 清岡, 暎一, 1902-1997

Tokyo : The Hokuseido Press, 1953., 1953. Fair. xiii, 246 p. : ill. ; 18 cm ; LC: PL535; Dewey: 495.682421 ; OCLC: 1315520 ; Mottled Purple cloth with gold lettering ; a ribbon attached to the headband ; Japanese title tipped in to back flyleaf ; FAIR [this listing contains text in Japanese JIS Code Fonts]

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£17.88

This is Japan : Number Five September 1958.[Picture Map of Nagasaki ; Battle of the Department Stores; Shippoku Cooking of Nagsaki; Modern Buddhist Temples; Behind the Kabuki Curtain ; Christianity in Japan, Today and Yesterday;]

by Fujita, Takeo, 1905-, Eric Britter, Tiltman, H. Hessell b. 1897, Richard Hughes, Shinjiro Tananka, Ernest Silver, Ito, Noboru, 1908-, Yoshida, Shigeru, 1878-1967 (?? ?)., Dreyfuss, Henry, 1904-1972, Guillain, Robert, 1908-, Yoshida, Kenichi, 1912-1

Tokyo : Asahi Shimbun Newspaper Pub. Co., Toppan Printing Co., 1958, 1958. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 388 pp. : illustrated , portraits ; 33 cm. ; Folio ; Dewey: 915.2 ; OCLC: 25975538 ; stiff color pictorial paper wrappers with image of Hokusai Katsushika's Kanagawa-oki Namiura (Raging Billows off Kanagawa) ; articles by Fujita, Takeo, 1905-, Eric Britter, Tiltman, H. Hessell b. 1897, Richard Hughes, Shinjiro Tananka, Ernest Silver, Ito, Noboru, 1908-, Yoshida, Shigeru, 1878-1967 (?? ?)., Dreyfuss,... Read more about this item

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£44.71

Japanese in thirty hours; first course in Japanese language for either class room use or for self study. Systematized direct method.

by Kiyooka, Eiichi 清岡, 暎一, 1902-1997

Tokyo : The Hokuseido Press, 1951., 1951. Good. 244 pp. ; illustrated ; 18 cm. ; OCLC: 3221390 ; LCCN: 55-24566 ; LC: PL535; Dewey: 495.68242 ; blue cloth with gold lettering, silk ribbon ; damp wear to spine ; G

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£19.10

Lord Hotta The Pioneer Diplomat of Japan

by SATOH, HENRY

Tokyo.: Hakubunkan.. Second edition.. 1908.. 107pp + 13 page appendix in English, 85 + [14]pp in Japanese, endpapers foxed, lower edge of lower cover damaged with small loss, text very good and clean. Original green cloth titled in gilt both covers (in English and Japanese respectively). Bilingual account of the events surrounding the opening of Japan from a Japanese perspective. Lord Hotta favoured Japan's engagement with the west when many around him were strongly opposed to this policy. Important... Read more about this item

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£96.63

Engineers of the Eighth U.S. Army in Action. A Portfolio of Sketches: Tokyo-Yokohama Area. 1945-1946.

by MILLER, ALBERT T

Yokohama.: Eighth U.S. Army Printing Plant.. 1946.. Colour and black and white full page plates, 36 pages on double leaves, bound in oblong Japanese paper covered boards with ties, 28 x 39 cm. Upper cover lifting, a little minor insect damage paper covered boards, light soiling title page, mild crease front free endpaper and title page. Very good. Illustrations show the building of Haneda's airstrip, handling of materials at Yokohama's North Docks, building of quonset huts. The last few plates show the... Read more about this item

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£130.58

愚仙畫報風景の巻. [Gusen gaho fukei no maki]. [Gusen Pictorial: Landscapes].

by [YŪBUNKAN SHUPPANBU].有文舘出版部

京都.[Kyoto].: 有文舘.[Yūbunkan].. 明治四十五 [1912].. 16 two-tone black and grey woodblock prints with accompanying Japanese text on opposite leaf, [31]pp unpaginated, four stab hole string binding, paper title label laid down upper cover. Covers worn and stained, extremities worn with loss. Some hold barely affecting the text one leaf and loss of paper upper corner lower paste down. Generally good. 16.6 x 23.9cm. Yamauchi... Read more about this item

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£235.04

The Great Ship from Amacon. Annals of Macao and the Old Japan Trade, 1555 - 1640.

by BOXER, C.R

Lisboa.: Centro de Estudos Historicos Ultramarinos.. 1959.. Maps, 1 folding, 2 black and white photographic plates, xi + 361pp, appendix, bibliography, index. Bound in modern maroon cloth binding, leather title label on spine, original wrappers (trifle browned) bound in, occasional very light foxing. Bookplates of C.R. Boxer and G. & N. Ingleton front endpapers, marked Ingleton Catalogue No 10955 lower corner lower wrapper. Very pleasing copy. Text in English and Portuguese. .

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£130.58

A Day In The Life of Japan.

by Smolan, Rick. ; Cohen, David, 1955- [Ellen Bailey, Bruno Barbey, Lucy Birmingham, Torin Boyd, David Burnett, Gary Chapman, Misha Erwitt, Arthur Grace, Tom Haley, Pauline Johnson, Hiroji Kubota, Kaku Kurita, Masaki Miyazawa, etc]

Toronto ; New York : Collins, 1985., 1985. Good. [1st edition], 1st printing ; 236 pp. : chiefly illustrations, most in color ; 37 cm. ; ISBN: 0002175800 :; 9780002175807 ; LCCN: 86-673094 ; OCLC: 12796599 ; "photographed by 100 of the world's leading photojournalists on one day, June 7, 1985" ; black cloth with gold lettering, this copy without dustjacket ; ex-library, stamps, label ; a good file copy of this important visual record of Japan in the 1980's ; G

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£48.77

The Japan Year Book. Complete Cyclopedia of General Information and Statistics on Japan and Japanese Territories for the Year 1921-22.

by [JAPAN YEAR BOOK]

Tokyo.: Japan Year Book Office.. Sixteenth Annual Publication. (1928).. Folding colour map, and 2 folding plans and black & white sketch maps in the text, xxxiv (advertisements at front and back) + 698pp plus 200pp supplement includes business directory and index to advertisers, legal, medical, shopping, and gastronomical information and a bibliography. Bright red cloth covered boards, inner hinge neatly re-enforced with archival tape. A very good copy, clean and bright. Small blind stamp from the... Read more about this item

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£261.15

Kabuki Plays on Stage ; volume 1: Brilliance and Bravado, 1697-1766. [Kotobuki Soga no Taimen; Shibaraku, Domo Mata, Uiro Uri; Kajiwara Heizo Homare no Ishikiri; Kuzunoha; Sakaro; Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami; Hikimado; etc]

by Brandon, James R. & Samuel L. Leiter. [cover ill., Utagawa Toyokuni; [Ichigawa Danjuror, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Hasegawa Senshi, Matsuda Bunkodo, Takeda Izumo, Namike Sosuke, Takeda Izumo, Namiki Senryu, Nakamura Akei, Kineya Tadajiro, Chikamatsu Han

Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, 2002., 2002. As New. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; xiii, 391 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. ; ISBN: 0824824032 ; OCLC: 51812862 ; LCCN: 2001-27912 ; OCLC: 46952291 ; consists of thirteen plays that showcase early kabuki's scintillating and boisterous styles of performance and illustrates the contrasting dramatic techniques cultivated by actors in Edo (Tokyo) and Kamigata (Osaka and Tokyo). ; AS NEW

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£56.90

The Kikkoman Chronicles : A Global Company with a Japanese Soul.

by Yates, Ronald E. [editors, Jeffrey Krames, Donna Namorato, Suzanne W. B. Rapcavage, Kim Sheran; cover dsign, Ede Dreikurs]

New York ; San Francisco ; Washington ; Auckland ; Bogota ; Caracas ; Lisbon ; London ; Madrid ; Milan ; Montreal ; Mexico City ; New Delhi ; San Juan ; Singapore ; Tokyo ; Toronto ; Sydney : McGraw-Hill, 1998., 1998. Very Good. xviii, 206 pp. : illustrated with photographs and artwork ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0786312416 ; LCCN: 98-193485 ; OCLC: 39284317 ; LC: HD9330.S653 ; Dewey: 338.7/6645 ; "Rich in Kikkoman company lore, the book features dozens of never-before-published anecdotes & stories. The... Read more about this item

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£23.57

御布令之譯. [Ofure no ke]. [Illustrated Interpretations of 70 Types of Small Civil Crimes].

by [URAYA YOSHIHARU]. 浦谷義春

Osaka.: [Manabe Busuke]. 真部武助. Meiji 9 [1876]. Black and white woodblock print on Japanese washi paper, 4 small text sheets pasted on two panels and lower margin for revisions and addendum, 38 x 68cm, This interesting kawaraban, which was published in Osaka in 1876, details over 70 types of small crimes with charming little black and white illustrations. It was published in order to explain the newly introduced civil law at the beginning of Meiji period to the Japanese public.... Read more about this item

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£783.45

One Of The Boys But Always A Lady

by Dowling, Lillian Jones

New York, New York: Vantage Press. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. 184 pages: 6.25 x 9.25 in.: 1.6: KB#003191: Original Title was "One of the Boys But Always a Lady: The Life of a Red Cross Recreation Worker in Combat Troop Camps in Australia During the War With Japan". .

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£25.20

Defense of Japan 2009

by Ministry of Defense

Japan: Erklaren, Inc., 2009. Paperback. Good +. Oversize paperback publication. Some wear to the covers and bending to the corners. Interior is clean, tight and unmarked. 535 pp, some black and white photos and charts.

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£20.32

The Rising Sun

by Toland, John

Cassell, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The jacket is lightly edge worn. The boards are rubbed. Internally clean. Well bound. ak. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

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£7.32

Origami: Japanese Paper Folding.

by Sakade, Florence

Boston ; Rutland, VT ; Tokyo : Tuttle Publishing, 2002., 2002. As New. 2nd edition ; 96 p. : ill. ; 28 cm., 10.98 x 8.56 ; ISBN: 0804833087 ; OCLC: 50225692 ; first published in three volumes, 1957-59 ; "Origami, or paper folding, has been a part of the Japanese craft tradition for over a thousand years....featured a re more than 50 items...various animals, flowers, boxes, boats, and the ever-popular crane. A selection on practical applications shows how origami can be used in mobiles, as party... Read more about this item

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£8.94

The Rising Sun: the decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire (2 vols)

by Toland, John

Random House Book Club , 1970. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback, two volumes complete, octavo. A very good tightly bound set with a clean and unmarked text. The dust jackets are complete, but with residual marks to the edges of the verso from old tape strengthening, showing through on the return flaps & therefore described as good only. Maps to the endpapers, b&w plates, maps, 1181pp.

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£36.00

Storm Over the Gilberts : War in the Central Pacific, 1943. [Tarawa Victory; The Liscome Bay; Invasion; etc]

by Hoyt, Edwin Palmer. [jacket design, Barbara Hall]

New York : Mason/Charter, 1978., 1978. Very Good. [Book club ed.] ; ISBN: 0884054985 ; OCLC: 6826093 ; 162 p., [4] leaves of plates : illustrated ; dark blue pressed boards with silver lettering in photographic dustjacket ; a few small tears to dustjacket, else VG/G