Delve inside the myriad landscapes of Japan with this stunning collection of photographs and discover the nation's extraordinary diversity of places, people and experiences- from moments in awe-inspiring cities to quiet escapes in remote, ...
This collection makes available key articles on the Japan-North American relationship from the Meiji era to the present.
In Japan Rising, renowned expert Kenneth Pyle identities the common threads that bind the divergent strategies of modern Japan, providing essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how Japan arrived at this moment -- and what to ...
Includes a detachable color map of Tokyo affixed to page 3 of cover.
... published in 1913 , contains recognizably Victorian poets such as John Greenleaf Whittier and Lord Tennyson . By 1987 , when the Ricks edition of The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse appeared , we could ask , whither Whittier ?
The year 2004 marked the 150th anniversary of the signing of the first treaty of peace and amity (Treaty of Kanagawa) between the United States and Japan.
Contests conventional wisdom on Japan's postwar economic success and its economic and political problems in the 1990s, providing a new account of these conditions.
A journey inside modern-day Japan reveals the economic and social realities that have created a lost generation of Japanese young adults, examining the country's a high suicide rate, low birthrate, untreated cases of depression, young men ...
Japan and the United States: 1853-1921
In 1920, there were more than 2,000 banks competing for business; not only was competition intense, but the large number made government oversight, control and intervention difficult. By 1945, the number had been reduced to 69, ...