
As it depicts katsu stealing, and getting the better of authorities, customs, economy, it also provides a refreshing perspective on Japanese society, brawling, indulging in the pleasure quarters, and human relationships. A series of picaresque adventures set against the backdrop of a Japan still closed off from the rest of the world, Musui's Story recounts the escapades of samurai Katsu Kokichi.
Rice paddies. From childhood, Katsu was given to mischief. Musui's story will delight not only students of Japan's past but also general readers who will be entranced by Katsu's candor and boundless zest for life. Katsu's descriptions of loyalty and kindness, greed and deception, vanity and superstition offer an intimate view of daily life in nineteenth-century Japan unavailable in standard history books.
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Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood

In this autobiography, Richard E. Examining the intersections of japanese and korean history that influenced Korea-Japan relations at the time, Lost Names is at once a loving memory of family, an ethnography of Zainichi Koreans in 1930s Japan, and a vivid portrayal of human spirit in a time of suffering and survival.
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Japan at War: An Oral History

Japan at war is a book to which Americans and Japanese will continue to turn for decades to come. In a sweeping panorama, Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Following the release of clint eastwood’s epic film letters from Iwo Jima, which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture, there has been a renewed fascination and interest in the Japanese perspective on World War II.
Used book in Good Condition. This pathbreaking work of oral history is the first book ever to capture—in either Japanese or English—the experience of ordinary Japanese people during the war. University of California Press. Cook take us from the japanese attacks on china in the 1930s to the Japanese home front during the inhuman raids on Tokyo, and Nagasaki, Hiroshima, offering the first glimpses of how the twentieth century’s most deadly conflict affected the lives of the Japanese population.
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A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present

. A modern history of japan: from tokugawa times to the Present, Third Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. Used book in Good Condition. Author andrew gordon offers the finest synthesis to date of Japan's passage through militarism, the American occupation, World War II, and the subsequent economic rollercoaster.
New to the third edition* The previous edition's final chapter has been extensively revised for the third edition. Used book in Good Condition. Retitled "japan's 'lost decades", it now covers the timespan from 1989 through 2008. An entirely new final chapter examines Japan's tumultuous recent history in a global context.
It takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal overlordship of the Tokugawa family--through the modernizing revolution launched by midlevel samurai in the late nineteenth century; the adoption of Western hairstyles, clothing, and military organization; and the nation's first experiments with mass democracy after World War I.
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Naomi

Vintage Books. Used book in Good Condition. University of California Press. When twenty-eight-year-old joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from the naïve girl of his fantasies.
And, in tanizaki’s masterpiece of lurid obsession, passion quickly descends into comically helpless masochism.
The Question of Hu

It is the story of john hu, a lowly but devout chinese Catholic, who in 1722 accompanied a Jesuit missionary on a journey to France--a journey that ended with Hu's confinement in a lunatic asylum. Used book in Good Condition. Vintage Books. Used book in Good Condition.
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Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850

Used book in Good Condition. Engaging, thorough, and accessible, this is an essential text for all students and scholars of Japanese history. Westview Press. Used book in Good Condition. University of California Press. Each part begins with a timeline and a set of guiding questions and issues to help orient readers and enhance continuity.
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A Concise History of Japan Cambridge Concise Histories

Used book in Good Condition. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key themes regarding Japan's relationships with its minorities, state and economic development, and the uses of science and medicine. Used book in Good Condition. The book begins by tracing the country's early history through archaeological remains, before proceeding to explore life in the imperial court, civil conflict, the rise of the samurai, encounters with Europe, and the advent of modernity and empire.
Westview Press. It is a history for our times, posing important questions regarding how we should situate a nation's history in an age of environmental and climatological uncertainties. Cambridge University Press.
Some Prefer Nettles

Used book in Good Condition. Great product! But at the heart of their arrangement lies a sadness that impels Kaname to take refuge in the past, in the serene rituals of the classical puppet theater—and in a growing fixation with his father-in-law’s mistress. University of California Press. No longer attracted to one another, they have long since stopped sleeping together and Kaname has sanctioned his wife’s liaisons with another man.
. It is the 1920s in tokyo, and kaname and his wife Misako are trapped in a parody of a progressive Western marriage. Vintage Books. Westview Press.
East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History

Written by top scholars in the field, and korea in a larger, and political history, 3e delivers a comprehensive cultural, EAST ASIA: A CULTURAL, Japan, political, and intellectual history of East Asia, while focusing on the narratives and histories of China, SOCIAL, economic, global context. A range of primary source documents spotlights women's independence, and other stirring issues, students-turned-soldiers, while intriguing biographical sketches throughout highlight the lives of popular figures and ordinary people alike.
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