The Arts of Japan: Ancient and Medieval
by Seiroku. Noma, et al
Listed under Japanese Art
A
Brief History of Japanese Civilization
by Conrad Schirokauer
(Paperback - 1993)
The
Cambridge History of Japan 6 Volume Set
by John Whitney Hall, Marius B. Jansen, Madoka Kanai, Denis Twitchett
Book Description: The Cambridge History of Japan is the first major
collaborative synthesis to present the current state of knowledge of Japanese
history for the English-reading world. The series draws on the expertise
and research of leading Japanese specialists as well as the foremost Western
historians of Japan. From prehistory to the present day, the series encompasses
the events and developments in Japanese polity, economy, culture, religion
and foreign affairs. In the distinguished tradition of Cambridge histories,
the completed series provides an indispensable reference tool for all students
and scholars of Japan and the Far East.
Hardcover: 650 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.37 x
9.29 x 6.30
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; (August 1993)
ISBN: 0521223520
The
Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 1, Ancient Japan
by Delmer M. Brown (Editor)
(Hardcover - August 1993)
The
Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 2, Heian Japan
by Donald H. Shively (Editor), William H. McCullough (Editor)
(Hardcover - August 1999)
The
Cambridge History of Japan : Volume 3, Medieval Japan
by Kozo Yamamura (Editor)
(Hardcover - June 1990)
Cambridge
History of Japan: Volume 4, Early Modern Japan
by John W. Hall
The
Cambridge History of Japan : The Nineteenth Century
by Marius B. Jansen (Editor)
(Hardcover - April 1989)
Cambridge
History of Japan: Volume 6, The Twentieth Century
edited by Peter Duus
Contemporary Japanese Film
by Mark Schilling
Listed under Cinematography
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun
by Rhoda Blumberg
Listed under Commodore Perry
Double
Eagle and Rising Sun: The Russians and Japanese at Portsmouth in 1905
by Raymond A. Esthus
(Hardcover - January 1988)
The
Enigma of Japanese Power
by Karel Van Wolferen, et al
(Paperback - June 1990)
Kaigun
: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941
by David C. Evans, Mark R. Peattie
(Hardcover - December 1997)
The
Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan
by William R. Lafleur
(Paperback - June 1986)
Noh'
or Accomplishment: A Study of the Classical Stage of Japan
by Ernest Fenollsa, et al
(Hardcover - November 1999)
Nomonhan:
Japan Against Russia, 1939
by Alvin D. Coox
(Hardcover - February 1986)
Hirohito
and the Making of Modern Japan
by Herbert P. Bix
To many, Emperor Hirohito of Japan is remembered as a helpless figurehead
during Japan's wars with China and the U.S. According to the received wisdom,
he knew nothing of the plan to bomb Pearl Harbor and had no power to stop
atrocities like the Rape of Nanking. The emperor was the mild-mannered
little man who traipsed with Mickey Mouse in Disneyland and who brought
peace through surrender, certainly not "one of the most disingenuous persons
ever to occupy the modern throne." Herbert Bix's charged political biography,
however, argues that such accepted beliefs are myths and misrepresentations
spun by both Japanese and Americans to protect the emperor from indictment.
Since Hirohito's death in 1989, hundreds of documents, diaries, and scholarly
studies have been published (and subsequently ignored) in Japan. Historian
Bix used these sources to develop this shocking and nuanced portrait of
a man far more shrewd, activist, and energetic than previously thought.
Caught up in the fever of territorial expansion, Hirohito was the force
that animated the war system, who, acting fully as a military leader and
head of state, encouraged the belligerency of his people and pursued the
war to its disastrous conclusion. To the very end, Hirohito refused to
acknowledge any responsibility for his role in the death of millions as
well as the brutalities inflicted by his forces in China, Korea, and the
Philippines. In fact, he worked with none other than General MacArthur
to select his fall guys and fix testimony at the Tokyo War Crimes Trials--the
emperor trying to protect the throne at all cost, the U.S. acting to ensure
control of the Japanese population and the military by retaining Hirohito
as a figurehead.
Not surprisingly, this hefty work of scholarship is making waves, as
Americans and Japanese reconsider their roles in WWII and its aftermath.
By placing Hirohito back in the center of the picture and puncturing the
myths that surround him, Bix has effectively asked the Japanese to come
out of their half-century repression of the past and face their wartime
responsibility. Without doing so, he implies, the monarchy will forever
impede the development of democracy. For those interested in Japan's wartime
past and its influence on the present, this is fascinating, if lengthy,
reading. --Lesley Reed - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 816 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.87 x
9.57 x 6.49
Publisher: HarperCollins; ; (September 2000)
ISBN: 006019314X
A Hundred Years of Japanese Film
by Donald Richie, Paul Schrader (Introduction)
Listed under Cinematography
Inside
GHQ : The Allied Occupation of Japan and Its Legacy
by Eiji Takemae
(Hardcover - May 2002)
Japan
Erupts: The London Naval Conference and the Manchurian Incident, 1928-1932
(Japans Road to the Pacific War)
by James Morley (Editor), David Titus (Translator)
(Hardcover - October 1994)
Japan:
A Modern History
by James L. McClain
(Hardcover - November 2001)
Lost
Japan
by Alex Kerr
Book Description: Drawing on the author's personal experiences of life
in Japan over a period of 30 years, Lost Japan takes the reader on a backstage
tour of the country's cultural icons. The book explores different facets
of Alex Kerr's cultural involvement: friendships with Kabuki actors, buying
and selling art, studying calligraphy, exploring rarely visited temples
and shrines. The author's experiences underscore the fact that Japan is
heading towards environmental and cultural ruin.
Paperback from Lonely Planet
Book Published: May, 1996 |
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Lost
Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan
by Rebecca L. Copeland
Paperback from University of Hawaii Press
Book Published: June, 2000
Nikken
Sekkei : Building Future Japan 1900-2000
by Botond Bognar, Kenneth Frampton
(Hardcover - July 2000)
Okinawa:
Cold War Island
by Chalmers Johnson (Editor)
(Paperback)
Geisha
: A Living Tradition
by Kyoko Aihara (Photographer)
Hardcover: 128 pages
Carlton Books; ISBN: 1858689708; 0 edition (May 15, 2000)
History
of Japanese Religion (Kegan Paul Library of Religion and Mysticism)
by Masaharu Anesaki
(Hardcover)
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Race,
Resistance and the Ainu of Japan (Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge
Studies)
by Richard Siddle
(Hardcover - July 1996)
Special Order
Toward
the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War With Japan
by David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye, et al
(Hardcover - August 2001)
The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905
by Geoffrey Jukes
Listed under Russo-Japanese
War
The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Voyage to the Battle of Tsushima
by Constantin Pleshakov, et al
Listed under Naval Warfare
Japan:
Its History and Culture
by W. Scott Morton
Book Description 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.
Emperor
of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-19
by Donald Keene
Hardcover: 928 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 2.21 x
9.60 x 6.50
Publisher: Columbia University Press; ; (May 15, 2002)
ISBN: 023112340X
Japan
in Crisis: Essays on Taisho Democracy
by Bernard S. Silberman, H. D. Harootunian, and Gail Bernstein
Paperback: 478 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.04 x
8.99 x 6.00
Publisher: Univ of Michigan Center for; ; (February 15,
2000)
ISBN: 0939512971
Special Order
Hirohito:
The Emperor and the Man
by Edwin P. Hoyt
Hardcover: 214 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x
9.40 x 6.40
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; ; (May 1992)
ISBN: 0275940691
Emperor
Hirohito and Showa Japan
by Stephen Large
Hardcover: 249 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.96 x
9.55 x 6.42
Publisher: Routledge (Import); ; (October 1992)
ISBN: 0415032032
Hirohito
and War
by Peter Wetzler
Card catalog description The debate over Emperor Hirohito's
accountability for government decisions and military operations up to the
end of World War II began before the end of the war and has continued even
after his death in 1989. Hirohito and War documents this controversy while
providing insights into the Showa emperor's role in military planning in
imperial Japan. It argues that Hirohito both knew of and participated in
such planning and offers evidence that he was informed well in advance
of imperial army and navy decisions, including the surprise attack on Pearl
Harbor. Using Japanese primary sources, many overlooked by Japanese and
Western historians, it shows that Hirohito's participation in the decision-making
process was entirely consistent with his intellectual background and his
passionate belief in the significance of the imperial tradition for the
Japanese polity (kokutai) in prewar Japan.
Hardcover: 310 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.10 x
9.48 x 6.48
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press; (February 1998)
ISBN: 082481925X
A History of Japan, 1334-1615
by George B. Sansom
Listed under Medieval Japan
In
the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army
by Edward J. Drea
Showa
by Carol Gluck and Stephen Graubard (Editors)
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.13 x 9.19 x 6.14
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; ; Reprint edition
(August 1993)
ISBN: 0393310647
Downfall:
The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
by Richard B. Frank
Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire is an impeccably
written analysis of the last months of the Pacific War and the unfolding
of the American air campaign over Japan. The story opens with a searing
description of the fire-bombing of Tokyo in March 1945, which caused more
deaths than the atom bomb in Hiroshima. Within five months, Japan's economy
was collapsing and the country faced catastrophic starvation. Richard B.
Frank coolly analyzes different scenarios for ending the war (Russia waited
in the wings). Frank concludes that the emperor and the Japanese military
were far from ready to surrender, and that the decision to use the atom
bomb probably saved millions of lives, not only Allied but Japanese and
other Asian lives, also--perhaps a hundred thousand Chinese were dying
each month under Japanese occupation. The effects of the bomb worked on
many levels, even lending faces to the Japanese militarists, who could
convince themselves that they were defeated not by a lack of spiritual
power but by superior science. Densely documented, intelligently argued,
Downfall recreates the end of the war from the viewpoints of the principals,
giving the book an unusual immediacy. A highly valuable insight into the
disintegration of the Japanese Empire, one of the most dramatic episodes
of World War II. --John Stevenson - Amazon.com
Paperback: 528 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.14 x
8.43 x 5.50
Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper); ; Reissue edition (May
2001)
ISBN: 0141001461
The
Silver Drum: A Japanese Imperial Memoir
by Princess Chichibu, translated by Dorothy Britton
Hardcover: 210 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.90 x
8.75 x 5.65
Publisher: Paul Norbury; ; (March 2000)
ISBN: 1860340040
The
Chrysanthemum Throne: A History of the Emperors of Japan
by Peter Martin and James Melville
The
People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995
by Kenneth J. Ruoff
Book Description Few institutions are as well suited as the
monarchy to provide a window on postwar Japan. The monarchy, which is also
a family, has been significant both as a political and as a cultural institution.
This comprehensive study analyzes numerous issues, including the role of
individual emperors in shaping the institution, the manner in which the
emperor's constitutional position as symbol has been interpreted, the emperor's
intersection with politics through ministerial briefings, memories of Hirohito's
wartime role, nationalistic movements in support of Foundation Day and
the reign-name system, and the remaking of the once sacrosanct throne into
a "monarchy of the masses" embedded in the postwar culture of democracy.
The author stresses the monarchy's "postwarness," rather than its traditionality.
The
Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family
by Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave
Most Westerners will know next to nothing of the Yamato, Japan's current
imperial family. Neither do most Japanese. Much of Japan's modern history
has been erased from postwar textbooks, and a whole generation has grown
up knowing nothing of the Rape of Nanking, Pearl Harbor, the Second World
War death camps, and countless other atrocities. All that remains are Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, symbols of Japan's eternal innocence.
Sterling and Peggy Seagrave correct these falsehoods and expose the
collusion and corruption that have been at the heart of the postwar Japanese
economic miracle. And far from being a symbolic reminder of an ancient
past, as the Japanese royal family is sometimes portrayed, the authors
point out that it has been at the epicenter of venality and cruelty. Prince
Chichibu, Emperor Hirohito's brother, turns out to have masterminded Golden
Lily, the systematic looting of every country Japan occupied in the prewar
years. Prince Yasuhiko was the brains behind the Rape of Nanking. And dear
old Hirohito was so hands-on during the war that he could have halted Pearl
Harbor. Moreover, the royal family was so comfortably in bed with the zaibatsu,
the corporate ruling elite, that it made a fortune out of the war while
the rest of the nation starved.
That none of this has come out before is only partly due to Japanese
revisionism. We, too, have to share the blame. We had the evidence to try
some of the imperial family as war criminals, but we chose not to. The
Seagraves' book makes uncomfortable reading for all concerned. --John
Crace, Amazon.co.uk
Hardcover: 400 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.44 x
9.58 x 6.52
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd); ; (April
11, 2000)
ISBN: 0767904966
A
Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns
by Chikafusa Kitabatake
Ancient Japanese Emporers
The
World of the Shining Prince
by Ivan Morris, edited by Paul De Angelis
Ancient Japan
The
Splendid Monarchy
by T. Fujitani
Paperback: 320 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.74 x
9.02 x 6.02
Publisher: University of California Press; Reprint edition
(April 1998)
ISBN: 0520213718
The Clear Mirror: A Chronicle of the Japanese Court During the Kamakura
Period (1185-1333)
by by George W. Perkins
Listed under Medieval Japan
Japanese
Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945: The Age of the Gods and Emperor
Jimmu
by John S. Brownlee
The
Japanese Enthronement Ceremonies: With an Account of the Imperial Regalia
by Daniel Clarence Holtom
Japan:
A Concise History
by Milton W. Meyer
Religion in Japan : Arrows to Heaven and Earth (University of Cambridge
Oriental Publications, 50)
by Peter F. Kornicki (Editor), et al
(Hardcover - March 1996)
Out of Print - Try Used BooksThe Age of Hirohito: In Search of Modern Japan
by Daikichi Irokawa, translated by John K. Urda and Mikiso Hane
Out of Print - Try Used BooksEmperors of the Rising Sun
by Stephen S. Large
Publisher: Kodansha International; (October 1997)
Out of Print - Try Used BooksZen at War
by Brian A. Victoria
Zen at War is a wake-up call for all Buddhists. Brian Victoria has
shown in a passionate and well documented way that Buddhism is not immune
to the kind of distortions that have been used throughout human history
by virtually all of the worlds religions to justify so-called holy wars.
John Daido Loori, Roshi, Abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery Author of The
Heart of Being. From the Back Cover
Paperback: Weatherhill; ISBN: 0834804050; (February 1998)
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