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Gentleman Samurai and Internationalist
The Life and Trials of Ambassador Sato Naotake, 1882-1971
This book examines Sato Naotake's remarkable and long career at the crossroads of Imperial Japan, emphasizing his role in maintaining the Neutrality Pact with the Soviet Union and in promoting the United Nations.
ISBN-13: 9781793632784 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
Greg Gubler
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AUD $79.99
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Local release date: 17/08/2022
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Categories: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW]Diplomacy [JPSD]Japan [1FPJ]

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The Paths of Zatoichi
The Global Influence of the Blind Swordsman
The Paths of Zatoichi charts the history and continuing influence of the Japanese film and TV franchise about Zatoichi the blind swordsman, both within the Japanese media industriesand within global popular culture.
ISBN-13: 9781793601216 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
Jonathan Wroot
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AUD $169.00
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Local release date: 15/10/2021
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Categories: Film theory & criticism [APFA]Film: styles & genres [APFN]Literature: history & criticism [DS]Japan [1FPJ]

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Hidden Horrors
Japanese War Crimes in World War II
Now in a significant new edition, this landmark book documents little-known wartime Japanese atrocities during World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments.
ISBN-13: 9781538102695 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: HAL LEONARD
Yuki Tanaka, John W. Dower
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AUD $98.99
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Local release date: 06/10/2017
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Categories: Asian history [HBJF]Second World War [HBWQ]Asia [1F]South East Asia [1FM]Japan [1FPJ]

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Japan
The Precarious Future
A joint publication of the Social Science Research Council and New York University Press.
ISBN-13: 9781479851454 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Frank Baldwin, Anne Allison
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AUD $75.99
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Local release date: 14/01/2016
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Categories: Asian history [HBJF]Politics & government [JP]Japan [1FPJ]

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Kyoto School Philosophy in Comparative Perspective
Ideology, Ontology, Modernity
This book presents the thought of the Kyoto School in comparison with continental philosophers better known in the West and addresses the affiliation of some of its members with the militarism of the 1930s and 1940s.
ISBN-13: 9781666920482 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
Bernard Stevens
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AUD $169.00
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Local release date: 31/01/2023
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Categories: Asian history [HBJF]Phenomenology & Existentialism [HPCF3]Political structures: totalitarianism/dictatorship[JPHX]Japan [1FPJ]

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Meiji Kabuki
Japanese Theater through Foreign Eyes
This book is an annotated collection of English-language documents by foreigners writing about Japan's kabuki theatre in the half-century after the country was opened to the West in 1853. Using memoirs, travelogues, diaries, letters, and reference books, it contains all significant writing about kabuki by foreigners-resident or transient-during ......
ISBN-13: 9781666926781 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
Samuel L. Leiter
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AUD $211.00
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Local release date: 06/12/2022
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Categories: Theatre studies [AN]Asian history [HBJF]Japan [1FPJ]

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Women's Performative Writing and Identity Construction in the Japanese E
In Women's Performative Writing and Identity Construction in the Japanese Empire, the author examines how writers captured various experiences of living under imperialism in their fiction and nonfiction works. Through an examination of texts by writers producing in different parts of the empire (including the Japanese metropole and the colonies ......
ISBN-13: 9781793611604 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
Satoko Kakihara
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AUD $160.00
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Local release date: 23/11/2022
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Categories: Literature: history & criticism [DS]Japan [1FPJ]

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Theorizing Post-Disaster Literature in Japan
Revisiting the Literary and Cultural Landscape after the Triple Disaster
This seminal book is the first sustained critical work that engages with the varieties of literature following the triple disasters-the earthquake, tsunami, and meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
ISBN-13: 9781793605368 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
Saeko Kimura, Rachel DiNitto, Doug Slaymaker
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AUD $169.00
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Local release date: 14/10/2022
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Categories: Literature: history & criticism [DS]Japan [1FPJ]

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CultureShock! Japan
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
CultureShock! Japan is a survival guide for anyone living, working or wanting to discover life in the Land of the Rising Sun.
ISBN-13: 9789814771016 (Paperback)
Publisher: MARSHALL CAVENDISH
Imprint: MARSHALL CAVENDISH INTNL ASIA
Raina Ong
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AUD $34.99
Stock: 1 in stock
Local release date: 03/06/2017
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Categories: Social & cultural history [HBTB]Travel tips & advice: general [WTD]Travel & holiday guides [WTH]Japan [1FPJ]