This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment in Western literature of the Heian period, the Japanese imperial court's golden age.
Edward Drea looks well past those stereotypes to unfold the more complex story of how that army came to power and extended its influence at home and abroad to become one of the world's dominant fighting forces.
This book challenges the conventional view of Japanese society as monocultural and homogenous.
This timely book satisfies the new interest and taste for Japanese food, providing information on foodstuffs, cooking styles, etiquette, and more.
This collection makes available key articles on the Japan-North American relationship from the Meiji era to the present.
This edition brings Japanese history up to date in the post 9/11 era, detailing current issues such as: the impact of the Gulf Wars on Japanese international relations, the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear accident, ...
Not only had newspapers been “both agent and expression” of an important social change in the West—the rise of civil society—they had played a critical role in the establishment of a legitimate locus for the public's voice in public ...
This book assesses EU-Japan security relations, examining how they have developed in individual security sectors and how they could be affected by international developments.
This collection presents a unique blend of viewpoints on the American-Japanese relationship.
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 ...