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A History of Japan: Revised Edition

by Richard Mason & John Caiger

A fascinating look at Japan from its early pre-history through the post-cold War period to the collapse of the Bubble Economy in the early 1990's. Recent findings shed additional light on the origins of Japanese...


People Who Eat Darkness

by Richard Lloyd Parry

Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in...


The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family

by Elisabeth Bumiller

With Bumiller's intimate, beautifully written portrait of a middle-class Tokyo housewife, readers finally penetrate the mysteries of the Japanese people to see how they differ from us, and how they are alike....


Inventing Japan: 1853-1964

by Ian Buruma

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...


The Last Samurai

by Mark Ravina

The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori's life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai, to national leadership, to his death as a rebel leader, has captivated generations of Japanese readers and now Americans...


The Diary of Lady Murasaki

The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan

by Ivan Morris

Ivan Morris’s definitive and widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious and melancholy world of ancient Japan.

Using The Tale of Genji and other major literary works from Japan’s Heian period as a frame...


Aikido Ground Fighting: Grappling and Submission Techniques

by Walther G. Von Krenner, Damon Apodaca & Ken Jeremiah

Aikido Ground Fighting presents effective ground techniques that remain true to aikido founder Morehei Ueshiba's teachings while addressing a potential weakness in the system: while aikido is renowned for its...


Castles in Japan

by Morton S. Schmorleitz

Armed with Castles in Japan, the traveler who wants to explore beyond superficial, flashy tourist attractions will learn where to go to discover Japan as it was. As a guidebook, this volume is a pleasure; as...


Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II

by John Geoghegan

The riveting true story of Japan's top secret plan to change the course of World War II using a squadron of mammoth submarines a generation ahead of their time

 

In 1941, the architects of Japan's sneak attack...


Manners and Customs of the Japanese in the Nineteenth Century: From the Accounts of Dutch Residents in Japan and from the German Work of Dr. Philipp F

by Philipp Franz von Siebold & Terence Barrow

Manners and Customs of the Japanese in the Nineteenth Century is a delightful account of the Japanese of Tokugawa Japan. First published in New York in 1841, this small book is one of the earliest accounts of...


Aichi 99 Kanbaku 'Val' Units: 1937-42

by Osamu Tagaya & Jim Laurier

The Aichi Type 99 Carrier Bomber (D3A) - code named 'Val' by Allied intelligence - was the mainstay of the Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier dive-bomber force from 1941 to 1943. It sank more Allied warship tonnage...


Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyers 1919-45 (1): Minekaze to Shiratsuyu Classes

by Mark Stille & Paul Wright

During the Pacific War, arguably the most successful component of the Imperial Japanese Fleet was its destroyer force. These ships were generally larger than their Allied counterparts and were better armed in...


The Manzoni Family: A Novel

by Natalia Ginzburg & Marie Evans

The classic account of a war correspondent trapped in the hot hell of the Pacific front. In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November...


Samurai Armies 1467-1649

by Stephen Turnbull

The Sengoku Jidai or "Age of Warring States" is the time of the samurai - Japan's military aristocracy. A period of endemic warfare where the absence of unifying central control led to constant struggles between...


Red Sun Rising: Japan, China and the West: 1894-1941

by Nick Shepley

In the second half of the 19th Century, Japan awoke from centuries of isolation to be a surprising and warlike challenge to European power in Asia. This ebook charts the rise of Japan's power and her dominion...


Sekigahara 1600: The Final Struggle for Power

by Anthony Bryant

Osprey's Campaign title for Sekigahara  (1600), which was the most decisive battle in Japanese history. Fought against the ritualised and colourful backdrop of Samurai life, it was the culmination of a long-standing...


The Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281

by Stephen Turnbull & Richard Hook

The two attempts by Khubilai Khan, the Mongol Emperor of China, to invade Japan in 1274 and 1281 represent unique events in the history of both countries. It pitted the samurai of Japan against the fierce warriors...


Early Samurai AD 200-1500

by Anthony Bryant & Angus Mcbride

War played a central part in the history of Japan. Warring clans controlled much of the country. The wars were usually about land, the struggle for control of which eventually gave rise to perhaps the most formidable...


Kawanakajima 1553-64: Samurai power struggle

by Stephen Turnbull & Wayne Reynolds

Kawanakajima is unique in history. In the space of 12 years, between 1553 and 1564, this valley deep in the mountains of central Japan witnessed no fewer than five battles between two of Japan’s greatest warlords....