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“frank gibney”

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  • Unlocking the Bureaucrat's Kingdom

    Deregulation and the Japanese Economy

    Edited by Frank Gibney ...
    Japan today is caught up in chronic economic crisis, its financial system wracked by record-breaking bankruptcies and its companies hobbled by bad balance sheets, overproduction, and weak consumer demand. In turn, Japan's faltering fortunes have sent shock waves across Asia, triggering the collapse of economies in South Korea, Thailand, and other Asian countries that followed its model for rapid ... Read more

    $27.39 CAD

  • The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame

    A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame

    by Katsuichi Honda, Frank Gibney, Karen Sandness ...
    This book is based on four visits to China between 1971 and 1989 by Honda Katsuichi, an investigative journalist for Asahi Shimbun. His aim is to show in pitiless detail the horrors of the Japanese Army's seizure and capture of Nanjing in December 1937. Unvarnished accounts of the testimony - Chinese victims and Japanese perpetrators - to the rape and slaughter are juxtaposed with public relations ... Read more

    Was $83.99 CAD Now $74.19 CAD

  • The Battle for Okinawa

    by Colonel Hiromichi Yahara, Frank B. Gibney ...
    Critical acclaim for The Battle for Okinawa"An indispensable account of the fighting and of Okinawa's role in the Japanese defense of the home islands." --The Wall Street Journal"A fascinating, highly intelligent glance behind the Japanese lines." --Kirkus Reviews"The most interesting of the 'last battle of the war' books." --The Washington Post"A fascinating insider's view of the Japanese command ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Silk and Insight

    by Yukio Mishima, Frank Gibney, Hiro Sato ...
    This is a tale based on the strike which took place in the mid-1950s at Omi Kenshi, a silk manufacturer not far from Tokyo. The events described reflect the management / labour tensions of the period and is a piece of social commentary on the transformation of Japanese business. ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Five Gentlemen of Japan

    The Portrait of a Nation's Character

    by Frank Gibney ...
    A newspaperman, an ex-Navy vice-admiral, a steel worker, a farmer, and the 124th Emperor of Japan himself—these are the fascinating heroes of Gibney's brilliant book about modern Japan. Strongly individual, every one of them, the five yet share the common inheritance of Japan's precocious but unstable past.Through their lives and attitudes, Gibney gives us an invaluable analysis of this new ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Silk and Insight (Kinu to Meisatsu): A Novel

    by Yukio Mishima, Frank Gibney ...
    Published in 1964, Silk and Insight (Kinu to Meisatsu), is one of the last major novels of Yukio Mishima to be translated into English. Besides being a good novel, as one would expect from Mishima, it stands as an excellent piece of social commentary on the transformation of Japanese business from the old paternalism--which by no means was benevolent--to a new world where labor unions were as ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • Senso: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War

    Letters to the Editor of "Asahi Shimbun"

    by Frank Gibney, Beth Cary ...
    This acclaimed work is an extraordinary collection of letters written by a wide cross-section of Japanese citizens to one of Japan's leading newspapers, expressing their personal reminiscences and opinions of the Pacific war. "SENSO" provides the general reader and the specialist with moving, disturbing, startling insights on a subject deliberately swept under the rug, both by Japan's citizenry ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

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    The Battle for Okinawa

    A Japanese Officer's Eyewitness Account of the Last Great Campaign of World War II

    by Colonel Hiromichi Yahara, Frank B. Gibney ...
    Narrated by Brian Nishii ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 33 min

    This critically acclaimed account of the Battle for Okinawa is told through the eyes of Colonel Hiromichi Yahara, the senior staff officer of the 32nd Japanese Army. It features segments on the Japanese preparation for battle, the American assault, and a summary of how the battle ended. Following the events that occurred in the life of Colonel Hiromichi Yahara, journalist Frank Gibney is able to ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

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    This classic Japanese story by Soseki Netsume-the foremost novelist of the Meiji Period—is a masterpiece of Japanese literature.This book demonstrates Soseki Natsume's ability to dissect and elucidate the human personality in all its complexity. Here, his facile blending of narrative, extended monologue and sharp dialog leaves the reader with an almost personal knowledge of the characters. We are ... Read more

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  • The Rape of Nanking

    The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II

    by Iris Chang ...
    The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal—and forgotten—massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War II."A powerful, landmark book, riveting in its horror." —Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic BombIn December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of... ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • If You Survive

    From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story

    by George Wilson ...
    "If you survive your first day, I'll promote you."So promised George Wilson's World War II commanding officer in the hedgerows of Normandy -- and it was to be a promise dramatically fulfilled. From July, 1944, to the closing days of the war, from the first penetration of the Siegfried Line to the Nazis' last desperate charge in the Battle of the Bulge, Wilson fought in the thickest of the action, ... Read more

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  • Island

    by Aldous Huxley ...
    “Huxley’s final word about the human condition and the possibility of the good society. . . . Island is a welcome and in many ways unique addition to the select company of books—from Plato to now—that have presented, in imaginary terms, a coherent view of what society is not but might be.” — New York Times Book ReviewThe final novel from Aldous Huxley, Island is a provocative work of utopian ... Read more

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