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    Japan in the Wake of World War II

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    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing ... Read more

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  • Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan

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    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A startling work — awesomely ambitious, faultlessly researched, daring in its thesis, and profound in its implications." — Business Week"Magnificent. . . . everything a political biography should be." — Richmond Times-DispatchThis rich and powerful political biography is now given fresh relevance with a new introduction by the author that explores how Hirohito’s legacy ... Read more

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  • Inventing Japan

    1853-1964

    by Ian Buruma ...
    Series series Modern Library Chronicles
    In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that ... Read more

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  • Modern Japan

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Goto-Jones ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products are consumed all over the world, ranging from animated movies and computer games all the way through to cars, semiconductors, and management techniques. In many ways, Japan is an icon of the modern world, and yet it ... Read more

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  • Japan

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    by Mikiso Hane ...
    What is a shogun? Who were the samurai and what is the warrior code? What lies behind the Japanese work ethic? From the ancient tea ceremony to the boom and subsequent downturn of its economic prosperity, this uniquely concise introduction to Japan and its history surveys nearly 10,000 years of society, culture, economics and politics. Balancing economic and political information with new insights ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 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

    $25.99 USD

  • 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

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  • Dr. Sun Yat-Sen : his life and achievements

    by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen ...
    One of greatest achievements book is that Dr. Sun Yat-sen was able to find a living synthesis between the ancient and the modern, between the East and the West, and combining them together to make China a modern country. ... Read more

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  • Japan

    A Concise History

    by Milton W. Meyer ...
    The emergence of Japan as a political and economic global power has been one of the most remarkable success stories of modern history. Though small in geographic area, the archipelago is the tenth most populous country, with 128 million inhabitants crowded into an area the size of Montana. Its natural resources are almost nonexistent, yet today it ranks only second after the much larger United ... Read more

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  • The Three Principles of the People

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    by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen ...
    The Three Principles of the People is a timely work that is still relevant in today's economic times.  In this book Dr. Sun Yat-Sen outlines his beliefs and principles for the people. In view of the prominent and influential position which The Three Principles of the People holds in the Chinese Nationalist movement and because of the difficulty involved in making passages for an abridged edition ... Read more

    $6.54 USD