The Colonel of Tamarkan: Philip Toosey and the Bridge on the River Kwai
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1. Toshié: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan (Philip E. Lilienthal Books)
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3. Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan (Stone Bridge Classics)

The Japanese Chronicles
Swiss travel writer and photographer Nicolas Bouvier shares his intimate experience of Japan. Based on three decades of travel throughout the islands, his reports, recollections, and reflections take the reader beyond the commonplace into an unexpected Japan. Whether describing village festivals or the suburbs of Kyoto, retelling Japanese myth and... More Related posts:

1. Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 (Modern Library Chronicles)

World War II Civilians' Stories In Japan
Stories of Japanese civilians during WWII. They don't talk too much own experiences, but there were war field all over Japan. This is civilians' stories.... More Related posts:

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The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan
Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic accessible to us through a sweeping investigation into the roots of Japanese organizational structures. She accomplishes this by focusing on the diverse roles that the samurai have played in Japanese history. From their rise in ancient Japan, through... More Related posts:

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Yasukuni, the War Dead, and the Struggle for Japan's Past (Columbia/Hurst)
Located in the heart of Tokyo, Yasukuni is a controversial shrine dedicated to the Japanese war dead. It holds the remains of twelve convicted and two suspected Class A war criminals, and its museum features an account of Japan's involvement in the Second World War that many would describe as... More Related posts:

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Isami's House: Three Centuries of a Japanese Family
In this powerful and evocative narrative, Gail Lee Bernstein vividly re-creates the past three centuries of Japanese history by following the fortunes of a prominent Japanese family over fourteen generations. The first of its kind in English, this book focuses on Isami, the eleventh generation patriarch and hereditary village head. Weaving back... More Related posts:

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Modern Japanese Society, 1868-1994 (O P U S)
The last 120 years have seen great social change and development in Japan. In the early 1870s Japan was still a third world country - a newly unified island nation with a highly agrarian economy and an insecure and weak government. By 1914 Japan has progressed towards the beginnings of an industrial economy, it had... More Related posts:

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The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture. Readers of this book will gain a clear understanding of what really makes the Japanese, and their society, tick.Among the topics explored: aimai (ambiguity), amae (dependence upon othersÆ... More Related posts:

1. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture (Encyclopedias of Contemporaryculture)
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Culture Shock! Japan: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! A Survival Guide to Customs & Etiquette)
Whether you're conducting business, traveling for pleasure, or even relocating abroad, one mistake with customs or etiquette can leave a bad taste in everyone's mouth. International travelers, now more than ever, are not just individuals from the United States, but ambassadors and impression makers for... More Related posts:

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The Samurai Invasion of Korea 1592-98 (Campaign)
The invasions of Korea launched by the dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1592-1593 and 1597-1598) are unique in Japanese history for being the only time that the samurai assaulted a foreign country. Hideyoshi planned to invade and conquer China, ruled at the time by the Ming dynasty, and when the Korean court... More Related posts:

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