The Tide at Sunrise: A History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05
The Russo-Japanese War was fought in the waters of the Yellow Sea and the Straits of Tsushima that divide Japan from Korea, and in the mountains of Manchuria, borrowed without permission from China. It was the first war to be fought with modern weapons.The Japanese had fought the Chinese at sea in 1894 and had gained a foothold in Manchuria by taking... More Related posts:

1. The Russo-Japanese War 1904-05 (Men-at-Arms)
2. The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905
3. Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory and the Russo-Japanese War (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)

The Home Front: An Oral History of the War Years in America
Based on interviews across the nation with hundreds of men and women of all ages and all walks of life, The Home Front recalls an unvarnished vision of the war as it was experienced on American soil. The World War II years were a special time in our history, and this book tells the story in the eloquent, often funny, words of the participants.... More Related posts:

1. Japanese War Brides in America: An Oral History
2. The Unquiet Nisei: An Oral History of the Life of Sue Kunitomi Embrey (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)
3. A Diplomat in Japan: The Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan When the Ports Were Opened and the Monarchy Restored (Stone Bridge Classics)

Stay off the Skyline: The Sixth Marine Division on Okinawa - An Oral History
The Sixth Marine Division holds a unique place in U.S. Marine Corps history, because it was retired after one great battle. The division was formed on Guadalcanal in September 1944, its ranks filled with battle-hardened veterans and untested replacement troops. The Sixth Division fought its only action on the island of Okinawa from April to June 1945 but entered the fight with more... More Related posts:

1. The Unquiet Nisei: An Oral History of the Life of Sue Kunitomi Embrey (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)
2. The Home Front: An Oral History of the War Years in America
3. Japanese War Brides in America: An Oral History

Case Studies in Japanese Negotiating Behavior (Cross-Cultural Negotiation Books)
Japanese representatives bring to the negotiating table a distinctive mind-set and behavioral style, one that s largely free of gamesmanship and histrionics but that s nonetheless frequently exasperating.This volume explores four recent U.S. Japanese negotiations two over trade, two over security-related issues looking for patterns... More Related posts:

1. The Japanese Industrial Economy: Late Development and Cultural Causation (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia)
2. Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory and the Russo-Japanese War (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)
3. Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies)

Reassessing the Japanese Prisoner of War Experience: The Changi POW Camp, Singapore, 1942-5
Popular perceptions of life in Japanese prisoner of war camps are dominated by images of emaciated figures, engaged in slave labour, and badly treated by their captors. This book, based on extensive original research, shows that this view is quite wrong in relation to the large camp at Changi, which... More Related posts:

1. Guns of February: Ordinary Japanese Soldiers’ View of the Malayan Campaign and the Fall of Singapore, 1941-42
2. Remolding and Resistance Among Writers of the Chinese Prison Camp: Disciplined and published (Routledge Studies in Asia’s Transformations)
3. Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-1945

Giants of Japan: The Lives of Japan's Greatest Men and Women
Giants of Japan brings to life fifteen centuries of Japanese history through lively biographical sketches of the great men and women who have shaped this fascinating and complex country. Covering industry, the arts, religion, and politics, the book includes business titans such as Morita Akio, founder of Sony, and Toyoda Eiji, the man behind Toyota's incredible success;... More Related posts:

1. Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria: The Lives of War Orphans and Wives in Two Countries (Japan Anthropology Workshop Series)
2. Women and Women’s Issues in Post World War II Japan (Dimensions of Contemporary Japan)
3. Japan’s Business Renaissance: How the World’s Greatest Economy Revived, Renewed, and Reinvented Itself

Battle for Manila
A detailed account of the liberation/destruction of Manila, which left 6,500 American, 20,000 Japanese, and 200,000 Manila citizens dead and leveled the thriving, cosmopolitan city once known as the pearl of the Orient.... More Related posts:

1. Escape to Manila: FROM NAZI TYRANNY TO JAPANESE TERROR
2. Hell in the Pacific: The Battle for Iwo Jima (General Military)
3. Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 (Vintage)

The Inland Sea
"Earns its place on the very short shelf of books on Japan that are of permanent value."—Times Literary Supplement. "Richie is a stupendous travel writer; the book shines with bright witticisms, deft characterizations of fisherfolk, merchants, monks and wistful adolescents, and keen comparisons of Japanes and Western culture." —San Francisco Chronicle "A... More No related posts.

Japan In the Land of the Broken-Hearted
The stories of six foreigners--one of them, the 19th century writer, Lafcadio Hearn--who fall in and out of love with Japan. The book uses their stories to examine the struggle between Japan adn those who sould hope not only to understand her, but to be accepted. "A graceful, honest, useful book... More Related posts:

1. Notes from Toyota-Land: An American Engineer in Japan
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3. Operation Broken Reed: Truman’s Secret North Korean Spy Mission That Averted World War III

A History of Japan: Revised Edition
A fascinating look at Japan from its early pre-history through the post-cold War period to the collapse of the Bubble Economy in the early 1990's. Recent findings shed additional light on the origins of Japanese civilization and the birth of Japanese culture. Also included here is an in-depth analysis of the religion, arts and culture of the Japanese people form the 6th century B.C.E. to the... More Related posts:

1. Japan’s Postwar History, Second Edition
2. RLE: Japan Mini-Set B: History (34 vols): A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: 1945-1980 (Routledge Library Editions) (Volume 30)
3. A History of Japan (Blackwell History of the World)