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A Gaijin's Guide to Japan: an Alternative Look at Japanese Life, History and Culture
An alternative look at Japanese life, history and culture
Traveller's History of Japan
Offers a chronological outline of Japan's development and provides an introduction to its language literature and arts from kabuki to karaoke. This work explains how a country embedded in the traditions of Shinto Shoguns and Samurai has achieved economic growth and dominance.
Frontispiece to 'The history of Japan', 1727.
Engraving with shows Japanese motifs such as dragons, coats of arms, pendants of office, and ceremonial lances. Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716) was a German physician working at the Dutch trading post in Japan from 1690-1692. He became fascinated by Japan and asembled a large collection, including ephemera, natural specimens, costumes, books, calendars, and maps. On his return to Europe he wrote 'The History of Japan' (1727) which records many aspects of the country in the Genroku period (1688-1704).
Traveller's History of Japan
Offers a chronological outline of Japan's development and provides an introduction to its language literature and arts from kabuki to karaoke. This work explains how a country embedded in the traditions of Shinto Shoguns and Samurai has achieved economic growth and dominance.
Traveller's History of Japan
Offers a chronological outline of Japan's development and provides an introduction to its language literature and arts from kabuki to karaoke. This work explains how a country embedded in the traditions of Shinto Shoguns and Samurai has achieved economic growth and dominance.
With MacArthur in Japan: A personal History of the Occupation, by Ambassador William Sebald
Very good condition for a second-hand book: light bumping to cover and jacket at bottom of spine end and top corners, light rubbing to jacket rear and very light soiling and tanning to front, rear and spine; very light tanning to pages, light tanning to edges, very slight foxing to top edge. As US Ambassador in occupied Japan, Sebald had a unique opportunity to observe the implementation of policy by General MacArthur and his staff. The author tells of the efforts to repatriate the 650,000 Japanese POWs held by the Soviets and follows through to the Korean War. Illustrated with photographs.
Japan: It's History and Culture
Looks at Japan's complex history. This work covers from the nation's earliest known civilization (about 30009 BCE) onwards. It traces various aspects of Japanese art,...
Japan Before Perry: A Short History, 25th Anniversary Edition
By 1853 Japan had been transformed from a sparsely populated land of nonliterate tribal peoples into an elaborately structured commercial society sustaining massive...
Rediscovering Japan, Reintroducing Christendom: Two Thousand Years of Christian History in Japan
Japan's Christian history and cultural roots are examined from an alternative perspective. Lee analyzes cultural, religious and linguistic evidence to argue that...
The Making of the Rape of Nanking: History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States
This study examines how views of the so-called Rape of Nanking, or the Nanjing Massacre, have evolved in history writing and public memory in Japan, China, and the...
Frontispiece to 'The history of Japan', 1727.
Engraving with shows Japanese motifs such as dragons, coats of arms, pendants of office, and ceremonial lances. Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716) was a German physician working at the Dutch trading post in Japan from 1690-1692. He became fascinated by Japan and asembled a large collection, including ephemera, natural specimens, costumes, books, calendars, and maps. On his return to Europe he wrote 'The History of Japan' (1727) which records many aspects of the country in the Genroku period (1688-1704).
Japan: An Illustrated History
Details Japans social and political history from the earliest settlements to the present.
Among The Dead Cities The History And Moral Legacy Of The Wwii Bombing Of Civilians In Germany And Japan (Ebook)
Among the Dead Cities is a dramatic retelling of the World War II saga.
Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan
Explores the relationship between the causes of colossal toxic pollution and the manner in which pain caused by pollution insults porous human bodies