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Embracing Defeat
by John W Dower
Drawing on a vast range of sources, from manga comics to MacArthur's report to Congress, this monumental new work by America's foremost historian of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. Alongside the familiar story of economic resurgence, Dower examines how the nation as a whole reacted to the contradictory experiences of humiliation at the hands of a foreign power and liberation from the demands of a suicidal nationalism. The result is a...
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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.
Hirohito and The Making Of Modern Japan
by Herbert P Bix
Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix shows what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine...
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Samurai
by Stephen Turnbull
Stephen Turnbull took his first degree at Cambridge University, and received a PhD from Leeds University for his work on Japanese religious history. He has travelled extensively in Europe and the Far East and also runs a well-used picture library. His work has been recognised by the awarding of the Canon Prize of the British Association for Japanese Studies and a Japan Festival Literary Award. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of...
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The Making Of Modern Japan
by Marius B Jansen
A sweeping history of modern Japan begins in 1600 and retraces the three major upheavals in Japanese history that have helped shape it into a modern Asian nation.
Samurai William
by Giles Milton
With all the adventure, derring-do, and bloodcurdling battle scenes of his earlier book, Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, acclaimed historian Giles Milton dazzles readers with the true story of William Adams—the first Englishman to set foot in Japan (and the inspiration for James Clavell’s bestselling novel Shogun). Beginning with Adams’s startling letter to the East India Company in 1611—more than a decade after he’d arrived in Japan—Samurai William chronicles the first...
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The World Of the Shining Prince
by Ivan Morris
Ivan Morris studied Japanese language and culture at Harvard University while serving in the Intelligence Section of the U.S. Navy Reserves. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1951, he worked for the Far East Section of the BBC as well as for the Japan and Pacific departments of the British Foreign Office. He lived in Tokyo for several years, writing, lecturing, and teaching. In 1960 he joined what would later be renamed the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at...
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Bushido
by Nitobe Inazo
Bushido, often translated as Way of the Warrior, came from the Samurai way of life and moral code. It emphasized loyalty, skill, moderation and honor, and became a widespread influence throughout Japan. In Shogakukan Kokugo Daijiten, the Japanese dictionary, "Bushido is defined as a unique philosophy (ronri) that spread through the warrior class from the Muromachi (chusei) period." Nitobe Inazo, in his book Bushido: The Soul of Japan, described it in this way. "...Bushido, then, is the code of moral...
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Japan Books & Ephemera
Shinto, The Way of Gods: Introduction to the Traditional Religion of Japan
by Miller, Vincent
Monee: Dingo Publishing, 2018. First printing. Paperback. Near Fine. Wraps, clean unmarked text, near fine copy.
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SGD 27.57
Japan : The Shaping of Daimyo Culture, 1185-1868
Braziller Incorporated, George, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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SGD 10.42
Rosanjin, 20th Century Master Potter of Japan
by Cardozo, Sidney B
New York: Japan Society, Inc, 1972. Paperback. Very Good. black and white illustrations, 20, (75)p. Softcover in original wrapper. 21cm. Cover browned around edges. Light corner crease.
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SGD 34.47
![米利幹新誌 巻之５. [Meriken shinshi Makino Go]. [New Account of America Part 5].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/900/382/863382900.0.b.jpg)
米利幹新誌 巻之５. [Meriken shinshi Makino Go]. [New Account of America Part 5].
by 海西漁夫 [KAISEI-GYOFU] ("FISHERMAN FROM THE WEST"), 鶴峯戊申 [TSURUMINE SHIGENOBU]
Edo.. 1855.. Volume 5 only. 4 double page black and white woodblocks from copper engravings, 18 folded leaves, some worming throughout, original wrappers considerably worn and wormed with a little loss. A reading copy only of the 5th and last volume of 米利幹新誌 巻之５ [New Account of America]. 1853 the year the first volume of this set was published was the year Commodore Matthew Perry's American fleet came to Uraga Bay. The four illustrations show: the...
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SGD 225.28
The Arts Of Japan An Illustrated History
by Munsterberg, Hugo
Tokyo: Charles E.Tuttle, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 201 pages. Eleven color and 109 black and white plates. With a List of Plates, Bibliography and Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER I557."An introduction to the major arts and the most highly developed crafts in Japan. Well-chosen illustrations.
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SGD 41.36
Japanesches Aritaporzellan im Sogenannten "Kakiemonstil" als Vorbild fur die Meissener Porzellanmanufaktur
by Shono, Masako
Munchen: Schneider, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. illustrations, 79, (71)p. Original white cloth. dj. 28cm. Gift inscription. Edges of jacket chipped.
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SGD 34.47
Prelude To War (World War II)
by Elson, Robert T. (And The Editors Of Time-Life Books)
Time-Life, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Book Laminated Black And White Pictorial Boards. Tightly Bound With Clean And Bright Boards. Some Light Shelf Wear. Illustrated In Black And White Throughout. Many Other Books In This Series In Stock. Item Type: Book. No Dust Jacket. Category: History; Military & Warfare. Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 020465. .
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SGD 8.62
![南支華僑會話要訣 日本語-廣東語-福建語 / Nanshi kakyou kaiwa youketsu. Nihongo Kantogo Fukkengo [= Southern Chinese dialogs. Japanese, Cantonese, Hokkien]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/075/288/1580288075.0.b.jpg)
南支華僑會話要訣 日本語-廣東語-福建語 / Nanshi kakyou kaiwa youketsu. Nihongo Kantogo Fukkengo [= Southern Chinese dialogs. Japanese, Cantonese, Hokkien]
by Kousaka, Junichi
Tokyo: Gaigo Gakuin Shuppanbu, 1942. 16mo, pp. [4], 1, [1], 285, [3]; text in four columns in Japanese, romaji Japanese, Cantonese and Hokkien; limp green cartonnage wrappers; wrappers rubbed with a few short tears to edges, first dozen pages with pencil annotations with a few following pages with some further annotations, rest of text clean, colophon leaf with strip of marginal annotations excised, not affecting the printing, fair. No copies in OCLC, 6 in Japanese libraries.
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SGD 198.19
Man-of-War Life: A Boy's Experience in the United States Navy, during a Voyage around the World, In a Ship of the Line
by [Nordhoff, Charles]
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys and Co, 1856. Fifth thousand. Hardcover. Fair. 6 plates (including frontis), 286p. Original blindstamped cloth. 17cm. Spine sloped. Extremities frayed. Lacks front free endpaper. Plates uniformly browned Foxing (light to moderate).
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SGD 103.40
![National school series. The school primer, or, the child's eibst stebs [sic] in reading and spelling, dbsignbd [sic] as introductory to Parker's school readers. [With:] Sargents Standard school primer..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/399/985/473985399.0.b.1.jpg)
National school series. The school primer, or, the child's eibst stebs [sic] in reading and spelling, dbsignbd [sic] as introductory to Parker's school readers. [With:] Sargents Standard school primer..
by [Manuscript in Japanese and English.]
n.p., n.d. [but Japan, 1859. An interesting and instructive look at how the Japanese learned English in the generation following Admiral Perry's opening of Japan. 2 volumes in 1, oblong fukurotoji, 5.5" x 8", approx. 198 french-fold pages sewn in the Japanese manner in contemporary and almost certainly original brown paper wrappers; minor working and wear, but in all a very good and striking example of a Japanese student's workbook for the attainment of English. The book has apparently been copied from...
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SGD 11,891.29
N.O.B. Official News, Newsletter published at Naval Operating Base, Okinawa, 4 issues. “Jap Crimes Told”
by [Periodical, World War 2, Occupied Japan]. Price, Rear Admiral John D., Commanding, edited by C. Manville Schwarz & others
Okinawa: NOB, broken run of 4 issues from volume 1; no 27, September 9, 1945; no 32, September 14, 1945; no 48, September 30, 1945; no 50, October 2, 1945. Small folios (13" x 8"), each 2 stapled sheets, 4 pp. printed recto & verso in two or three columns Includes a couple of "Male Call," comic strips by Milton Caniff, which only appeared in US Military publications, & others by Robert Jones, a staff cartoonist. Not currently found via OCLC although a single issue appears to be held at the Dwight D...
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SGD 130.98
Eagle against the Sun: The American War with Japan
by Spector, Ronald H
Hardback. Very Good.
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SGD 31.67
Japan: an attempt at interpretation
by Hearn, Lafcadio
MacMillan, 1904-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The Macmillan Company (Norwood Press); New York, 1904. Hardcover. First Edition. A Very Good, brown binding with gilt and black lettering on front board and gilt lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, crimping to spine edges, some handling/rub marks to boards, small black marker line bottom front board, TEG with some blemishes, scratch mark mid spine, bumped bottom board corners, mild discoloration and scattered foxing to...
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SGD 137.87
![A New War Map of the Aleutian Island Sea Road to Japan. [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/941/434/1547434941.0.b.jpg)
A New War Map of the Aleutian Island Sea Road to Japan. [caption title]
by [WWII MAP OF JAPAN AND THE PACIFIC]
Chicago.: Chicago Daily Tribune.. 28 January,1942.. Printed colour map, 40.3 x 53.6 cm; 46.5 x 60 cm (sheet), inset map of the North Pacific, back cover from a section of the Chicago Daily Tribune newspaper (pages 21-34) January 28, 1942; central fold, edgewear and browning with a few minor tears not affecting the map, in very good condition. Based on a Rand McNally map and issued less than two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbour by the Japanese. The Tribune briskly got to work issuing maps for...
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SGD 540.66
Japan, The Fragile Superpower
by Gibney, Frank
New York, NY: W. W. Houston & Company, Inc.. Good in Good dust jacket. 1975. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 347 pages; DJ is nicked and rubbed at edges, spine ends and corner tips. Mylar cover. Book edeges lightly rubbed. Previous owner seal Impressed at title pages. Text block clean and pages tight. .
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SGD 44.81
The Modern History of Japan.
by W.G. Beasley
Praeger Publishers, 1967. Paperback. Good. Praeger Publishers, 1967. Good. , Paperback, Text clean. Light cover wear and soil. 350 pages. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.
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SGD 13.72
Another Art History: Painter and Frame, exhibit from February - March, 1999; Gaka to gakubuchi, mo hitotsu no bijutsushi
by Nishinomiya City Otani Memorial Art Museum; Miyazaki, et al
Nishinomiya, Japan: Otani Memorial Art Museum, 1999. First Printing. Wraps. Good. Quarto, 11.5 x 8.25 inches, wraps, good to very good, some spottiness and soil to covers. 64 pp, illustrated in b/w and color. Text in Japanese. Exhibit and articles on the use and history of frames in Japan. OCLC locates a single copy.
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SGD 48.25
Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan
by Marshall, Robert C
Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1984. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. octavo, paper wraps, book is in very good condition with mild wear and toning to the wraps,178pp.
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SGD 22.06
Embracing Defeat; Japan in the Wake of World War II
by Dower, John W
New York: W.W. Norton [0-393-04686-9] 1999. (Hardcover) 676pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Photographs, maps, illustrations, notes, index. "Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources, this new study illuminates how shattering defeat followed by over six years of American military occupation affected every level of Japanese society in ways that neither the victor nor the vanquished could anticipate". Time Period Postwar. Locale: Japan. (World War II, History--Japan, Military...
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SGD 50.67
Omoide no Furu / Autobiography of Shizue Kato
by Shizue Kato
Tokyo: Jiyu Shokan, 1984. First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 8vo, publisher's boards in dust jacket, near fine, pages a bit tanned, occasional pencil and pen notes in English: this was owned by Helen Hopper, a scholar of Japanese feminist history who wrote a biography of Kato ("New Woman of Japan," Westview Press, 1996). . 236 pp. Autobiography of the feminist and politian. In Japanese.
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SGD 62.04
Winners in Peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and Postwar Japan
by Finn, Richard B
University of California Press, 1995. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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SGD 8.26
Zen Treasures From the Kyoto Gozan Temples (Exhibition Catalogue)
by Tokyo National Museum
Tokyo: Nikkei, 2007. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 2007. First edition. Paperback, 4to. in pictorial wraps. 356pp. illustrated, Japanese language with English language index. Very good. Ownership label on front flyleaf. Contents unmarked.
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SGD 172.34
The World of the Shining Prince: Court life in Ancient Japan. With a new introduction by Barbara Ruch. The classic study of the world of the Tale of Genji.
by MORRIS, Ivan.-
Kodansha International, 1994, New York.. 22x15. 338 pgs. Texto en inglés. 663060
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SGD 29.54
