#paperback #nonfiction #japanesehistory #hiroshima #ww2 #japan 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

The classic tale of the day the first atom bomb was dropped offers a haunting evocation of the memories of survivors and an appeal to the conscience of humanity

Hiroshima

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Florida

#paperback #history #historyofjapan #japan #japanese #japanesehistory #nonfiction 

New York

Its History and Culture

Beginning with its earliest known civilization (about 3,000 B.C.), "Japan: It's History and Culture traces aspects of Japanese religion, art, militarism, and agriculture and analyzes the social, political, and economic life of Asia's wealthiest nation. Richly anecdotal, this book casts fascinating sidelights on significant Japanese personalities, works of literature, and historic events, and the characteristic of the Japanese culture to adopt other's material for their own.

Japan

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New Jersey

#hardcover #moralcode #philosophy #history #JapaneseHistory #Japan #samurai

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Georgia

One who is a Samurai must before all things keep constantly in mind, by day and by night ... the fact that he is going to die.

The Code of the Samurai

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Historical account of the days before and after the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan during WWII. The book is in like new condition with minimal wear. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

The Last Train from Hiroshima

To Hell and Back 

Tennessee

Once a star of postwar industrial production and methods, Japan has encountered serious trouble with market forces in recent years. Social changes and departures from tradition are becoming more common in this conservative country. The revised edition of the popular work, "Japan: Its History and Culture, Fourth Edition," documents and explains these changes. Seamlessly blending current events, politics, and cultural elements, the authors provide a riveting account of a nation often misunderstood by the West.

#paperback #nonfiction #japanesehistory #war #hiroshima #japan #ww2 #wwii 

California

book is in used condition. there are highlighted passages and bent corners. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Late Tokugawa Period to the Present 

Japan A Documentary History 

Like new #paperback of one of my absolute favorite books (that I also have in hardcover, thus the listing). Perfect gift for an Akita owner, dog lover, fan of Japanese history... Totally wonderful and unforgettable book. #dogs #animals #Japan #history #Japanesehistory

Maryland

An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain

"Dog Man" tells the story of how one man's consuming passion for dogs saves a legendary breed from extinction and, in the process, leads him to a difficult, but more soulful way of life in the wilds of Japan's remote snow country.

Dog Man

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

Once a star of postwar industrial production and methods,Japan has encountered serious trouble with market forces in recent years. Social changes and departures from tradition are becoming more common in this conservative country. The revised edition of the popular work, Japan: Its History and Culture, Fourth Edition, documents and explains these changes. Seamlessly blending current events, politics, and cultural elements, the authors provide a riveting account of a nation often misunderstood by the West.

Japan: Its History and Culture

A History of the Japanese Military

During World War II, many of Japan's soldiers committed such crimes against humanity that the world recoiled in horror. During the notorious six-week-long rape of Nanking" in 1937, Japanese forces murdered at least 200,000 men, women, and children. Throughout the Pacific War, Allied prisoners were often starved, tortured, beheaded, even cannibalized. Although Japan's military men fought bravely against outnumbering forces again and again, their astonishing brutality made them a loathsome, unforgivable enemy.While this chapter of Japanese history is well known, few realize that earlier in this century the Japanese were celebrated throughout the West for their chivalry in warfare. During the Boxer Rebellion in China and the savage Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, the Western Press lauded the Japanese for their kindness to the wounded and imprisoned enemy. Warriors of the Rising Sun chronicles the Japanese military's transformation from honorable knights of Bushido" into men who massacred thousands during the Pacific War. Crucial in bringing about this change was Western rejection of Japan as an aspiring colonial power, as well as the West's racist, anti-Japanese immigration policies. Japan's leaders chose military brutality as a necessary means to achieve a rightful place in the world. Today, Japan has the second largest military budget in the world. What lessons have her leaders learned from the past wars?

Warriors of the Rising Sun

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North Carolina

John Allyn

Japan underwent tumultuous changes in the eighteenth century. The merchant class was rising in power, and the privileges of the professional warriors, or "samurai", were disappearing. The 47 Ronin Story is the classic story of Lord Asano of Ako and one of the bloodiest vendettas in Japan's feudal history. In 1701 in Edo, Japan, Lord Asano of Ako lashed out at a corrupt court official and set in motion a chain of events that shocked the country and brought the Shogun himself to a legal and moral impasse. When it was over, there emerged the most unlikely set of heroes-the forty-seven ronin, or "ex-samurai", of Ako.

The 47 Ronin Story

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The World's Bomb

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Virginia

The Epic Life of Minamito Yoshitsune

Samurai Rising

Here is the first full-length biography in English of the most important political figure in premodern Japan.

Hideyoshi?peasant turned general, military genius, and imperial regent of Japan?is the subject of an immense legendary literature. He is best known for the conquest of Japan's sixteenth-century warlords and the invasion of Korea. He is known, too, as an extravagant showman who rebuilt cities, erected a colossal statue of the Buddha, and entertained thousands of guests at tea parties. But his lasting contribution is as governor whose policies shaped the course of Japanese politics for almost three hundred years.

In Japan's first experiment with federal rule, Hideyoshi successfully unified two hundred local domains under a central authority. Mary Elizabeth Berry explores the motives and forms of this new federalism which would survive in Japan until the mid-nineteenth century, as well as the philosophical question it raised: What is the proper role of government? This book reflects upon both the shifting political consciousness of the late sixteenth century and the legitimation rituals that were invoked to place change in a traditional context. It also reflects upon the architect of that change?a troubled parvenu who acted often with moderation and sometimes with explosive brutality.

Hideyoshi

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In very good condition, not marks or tears.

Michigan

The Secret History of the Geisha

From critically acclaimed author and Japanese scholar Lesley Downer, an enchanting portrait of the mysterious world of the geisha. Ever since Westerners arrived in Japan, they have been intrigued by Japanese womanhood and, above all, by geisha. This fascination has spawned a wealth of extraordinary fictional creations, from Puccini's Madama Butterfly to Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha. The reality of the geisha's existence, though, whether today or in history, has rarely been addressed. Contrary to popular opinion, geisha are not prostitutes but, literally, "arts people." Their accomplishments include singing, dancing, playing a musical instruments; but above all, they are masters of the art of conversation, soothing the worries and stroking the egos of the wealthy businessmen who can afford their attentions. It is this which imbues the geisha with such power—and which makes absolute secrecy such a crucial aspect of their work. As denizens of a world defined by silence and mystery, geisha are notoriously difficult to meet and even to find. Lesley Downer, an award- winning writer, Japanese scholar, and consummate storyteller, gained more access into this world than almost any other Westerner ever has and spent several months living among them. In Women of the Pleasure Quarters, she weaves together intimate portraits of modern geisha with the romantic legends and colorful historical tales of geisha of the past. From Sadda Yakko, who dined with American presidents and had her portrait painted by Picasso, to Koito, a modern-day geisha who maintains her own website, geisha throughout history step out of the pages of Women of the Pleasure Quarters to become living, breathing creatures. Looking into such traditions as mizuage, the ritual deflowering which was once a rite of passage for all geisha, and providing colorful depictions of the geisha's dress, training, and homes, Downer, with grace, elegance, and respect, transforms their reality in a captivating narrative that both informs and entertains. At once a symbol of a bygone age and an institution more quintessentially Japanese than any other, geisha are a society at a crossroads, struggling to reinvent their place in the new millennium while honoring the traditions of the past. Both instructive and evocative, Women of the Pleasure Quarters is an enthralling portrait of a world unlike any other.

Women of the Pleasure Quarters

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John Hersey

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A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan

Annotation A broad, richly textured social history of the Japanese countryside from the 1920s to the present. told through the life of one woman and her community.

Toshie

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The world of the Samurai, the Legendary, Elite Warrior Cult of old Japan, has for too long been associated solely with military history and has remained a mystery. In this exciting new book, Stephen Turnbull, the world's leading authority on the Samurai, goes beyond the battlefield to paint a picture of the Samurai as they really were. The world of the Samurai Warrior is revealed to be one of great richness, with familiar topics such as the Cult of suicide, ritualized revenge, and the lore of the Samurai sword, seen in the context of an all-encompassing Warrior culture that was expressed through art and poetry as much as through violence.
208 pages, tons of beautiful full color pages of illustrations, paintings, and pictures from Old Japan, this book is a FEAST for the senses and a true gem for aficionados of the Samurai and Japanese culture!#hardcover #hardcover 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Oklahoma

The samurai 

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

#romance #lovestory #thesnowfox #japanesehistory 

Connecticut

Her characters, as always, are rich, compelling and three-dimensional. However, their various tales of love, both lasting and ephemeral, brutal civil war, loyalty to the ancient samurai code and to their warlord, Machiavellian politics, plague and illness, the camaraderie of noble soldiers and bandits alike, and the jealousies of beautiful court ladies, prove true the old adage that, "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts”

One thousand years ago, chaos loosed itself upon Japan, upending an era in which the arts flourished. At the dawn of 250 years of civil war, in the opulent court of Lord Norimasa, the beautiful but cruel poet Lady Utsu wages war with men's hearts and holds the fearsome lord and his devoted samurai Matsuhito in her thrall. As the two men raze Japan's landscape in futile battles for unity, Utsu falls for Matsuhito even as Lord Norimasa continues to love her. The epic romance of Utsu and Matsuhito resumes itself decades later, when they meet as vagrants so transformed by time that they no longer recognize each other; they are reunited through their mystical connection to a pair of snow foxes that are their only company in the Japanese wilderness. The heartbreaking story of their renewed love is fraught by the Japanese concept of mono no aware--life's ephemeral nature--that weighs on the lovers. Reading group guide included.

The Snow Fox

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A very brief book about the bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath. #history #americanhistory #japanesehistory

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times).

Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, John Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told. His account of what he discovered about them is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.

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