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  • The Ryukyu Islands

    A New History from the Stone Age to the Present

    by Gregory Smits ...
    The first comprehensive history of the Ryukyu Islands region in English.The Ryukyu Islands between Japan and Taiwan consist of around 160 islands and are home to about 1.5 million inhabitants. Across the islands' history, sea-lanes and trade patterns have connected them to the East China Sea region, giving them a unique vantage point on the region's changes and making them a useful lens through ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flexible Query Answering Systems

    16th International Conference, FQAS 2025, Burgas, Bulgaria, September 11–13, 2025, Proceedings

    Edited by Guy De Tré, Sotir Sotirov, Janusz Kacprzyk, Giuseppe Psaila, Grégory Smits, Troels Andreasen, Gloria Bordogna, Henrik Legind Larsen ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2025, held in Burgas, Bulgaria, during September 11–13, 2025.The 26 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The proceedings also include 3 invited talk and 2 tutorial papers. They were organized in the following topical sections: ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Early Ryukyuan History

    A New Model

    by Gregory Smits ...
    The Ryukyu islands have been inhabited by humans for over 30,000 years. Their modern population, however, did not come from stone-age ancestors, nor did distinctive forms of Ryukyuan culture, such as sacred groves or stone-walled castles, emerge from within the islands. Instead, different groups of people lived in the Ryukyu islands at various points in history. Starting with the earliest extant ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • When the Earth Roars

    Lessons from the History of Earthquakes in Japan

    by Gregory Smits ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    Japan, which is among the most earthquake-prone regions in the world, has a long history of responding to seismic disasters. However, despite advances in earthquake-related safety technologies, the destructiveness of the magnitude 9 class earthquake and tsunami that struck the country on 3/11 raised profound questions about how societies can deal effectively with seismic hazards. This important ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Visions of Ryukyu

    Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics

    by Gregory Smits ...
    Between 1609 and 1879, the geographical, political, and ideological status of the Kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) was characterized by its ambiguity. It was subordinate to its larger neighbors, China and Japan, yet an integral part of neither. A Japanese invasion force from Satsuma had conquered the kingdom in 1609, resulting in its partial incorporation into Tokugawa Japan’s bakuhan state. ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

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  • Brief History of Japan

    Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun

    by Jonathan Clements ...
    Series series Brief History of Asia Series
    This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion.First revealed to Westerners in the chronicles of Marco Polo, Japan was a legendary faraway land defended by a fearsome Kamikaze storm and ruled by a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • History of Japan

    Revised Edition

    by Richard Mason, J. G. Caiger ...
    A classic of Japanese history, this book is the preeminent work on the history of Japan.Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume, comprehensive account of Japan's history. Starting in ancient Japan during its early pre-history period, A History of Japan covers every important aspect of history and culture through feudal Japan to the post-Cold War period and the collapse of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Last Samurai

    The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori

    by Mark Ravina ...
    The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori's life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai, to national leadership, to his death as a rebel leader, has captivated generations of Japanese readers and now Americans as well - his life is the inspiration for a major Hollywood film, The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe. In this vibrant new biography, Mark Ravina, professor of history and ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Japanese

    A History in Twenty Lives

    by Christopher Harding ...
    A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Mightily impressive ... a marvellous read' Sunday TimesFrom the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals.The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Making of Modern Japan

    by Marius B. Jansen ...
    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 crowning work of our leading interpreter of the modern Japanese experience. ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Japan In World History

    by James L. Huffman ...
    Japan in World History ranges from Japan's prehistoric interactions with Korea and China, to the Western challenge of the late 1500s, the partial isolation under the Tokugawa family (1600-1868), and the tumultuous interactions of more recent times, when Japan modernized ferociously, turned imperialist, lost a world war, then became the world's second largest economy--and its greatest foreign aid ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Okinawa: The History of an Island People

    by George H. Kerr, Mitsugu Sakihara ...
    "The first full-length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western language…a standard work."—Pacific AffairsOkinawa: The History of an Island People is the definitive book available in English on the history of Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands, and an influential scholarly work in the field of Japanese studies. The histories of Japan, Okinawa and the entire Pacific region are ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD