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Fact or Fiction?
Purnendra Jain and Brad Williams
KEY FEATURE(S) To what extent is Japan in decline? In recent years popular writings, media commentaries and analysts often take the view that the rise of Japan is long since over and that the wold's second largest economy is not just treading water but that society and the economy is failing, with potential catastrophic outcomes. But is this really the case? Could it be that once again Japan is being misread and misinterpreted? Are there not both obvious and less obvious signs of renewal and recovery? And might the new DPJ-led government reform Japan?
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Fact or Fiction?
Edited by Purnendra Jain and Brad Williams
KEY FEATURE(S) To what extent is Japan in decline? In recent years popular writings, media commentaries and analysts often take the view that the rise of Japan is long since over and that the wold's second largest economy is not just treading water but that society and the economy is failing, with potential catastrophic outcomes. But is this really the case? Could it be that once again Japan is being misread and misinterpreted? Are there not both obvious and less obvious signs of renewal and recovery? And might the new DPJ-led government reform Japan?
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From the First Alliance to Post 9/11
Edited by Alessio Patalano
KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON
KEY FEATURE(S) This thought-provoking volume explores how, across more than a century, sea power empowered both the UK and Japan with a defensive shield, an instrument of deterrence, and an enabling tool in expeditionary missions to implement courses of actions to preserve national economic and security interests worldwide.
Furthermore, it expands the boundaries of the literature beyond the alliance period by exploring the strategic rationale underpinning the countries’ military policies since the end of the nineteenth c... |
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Biographical Portraits, Volume VII
Edited by Hugh Cortazzi
Published in association with the Japan Society
KEY FEATURE(S) This latest volume of leading figures in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations offers a classic menu of personalities, themes and events (in all 25 contributions)
Contents include the Cambridge scholar Carmen Blacker and leading historian William Beasley, British military observer and Times reporter of the Russo-Japanese War General Sir Ian Hamilton, philosophe... |
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From Wenneker to Sasakawa
John Chapman
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) This important new study focusing on the ultranationalist regimes in Germany and Japan during the 1930s and 1940s examines in biographical format the roles played by individuals significantly involved in the drive for global hegemony.
Employing a considerable range of new source materials and eyewitness testimony on the German side, it highlights the roles of the Nazi Party ‘enforcer’ and Gestapo representative in East Asia, Josef ... |
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Faith, Race and Strategy
James Boyd
MURDOCH UNIVERSITY, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
KEY FEATURE(S) This book offers the first in-depth examination of Japanese-Mongolian relations from the late nineteenth century through to the middle of the twentieth century and in the process repositions Mongolia in Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese relations.
Beginning in 1873, with the intrepid journey to Mongolia by a group of Buddhist monks from one of Kyoto’s largest orders, the relationship later included groups and individuals from across Japanese so... |
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The Writings of Louis Allen
Louis Allen
KEY FEATURE(S) It was Louis Allen’s work on Japan which dominated his prodigious output as a scholar, researcher and writer and which received greatest attention internationally. This collection of his writings focuses entirely on his principal fields of research, viz, Japan and the Pacific War, the post-war conflicts in Burma, Malaya and Indochina, and the immediate post-war years in the context of Japan, security and reconciliation.
Importantly, in addition to the 24 essays brought together here from both known and unknown sources, we are pleased to publish for the first time Louis Allen’s own undated autobiographical paper entit... |
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The Shamanic and Esoteric Origins of the Japanese Martial Arts
Roald Knutsen
AUTHOR OF JAPANESE SPEARS
KEY FEATURE(S) This is the first in-depth study in English to examine the warrior and shamanic characteristics and significance of tengu in the martial art culture (bugei) of Muromachi Japan (1336-1573).
Prompting this life-long study by the author, widely known for his writings on the samurai tradition, was the early discovery that the tengu of this period – the part-animal, part-human creatures- wer... |
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Volume 5
Alexander Vovin
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I
KEY FEATURE(S) This is the second volume to be published in the 20-volume set. It includes 114 poems (104 tanka, ten choka), traditionally considered to be the zoka genre, although some of them can be classified as benka, since they deal with death and sorrow. It also contains two poems in Chinese.
The volume has several long introductions (all written in Chinese) to the poems that follow. All the poems in this volume were composed between AD 724 and 733, which represents a much greater homogen... |
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The Occupation-era Correspondence of Kichisaburo Nomura
Compiled, edited, and with an Introduction by Peter Mauch
RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) This volume is the result of a recent important historical discovery, namely the personal papers of Kichisaburo Nomura – one-time foreign minister, pre-Pearl Harbor ambassador to the United States, and ‘spiritual godfather’ of post-war Japan’s Maritime Self-Defence Force. Reproduced here are Nomura’s Occupation-era correspondence with his American friends and associates ( a total of 84 letters).
The correspondence includes letters to/from Navy Secretary Daniel Kimball, SCAP political adviser William Sebald, former ambassadors William Castle and Joseph Grew, Army and Navy Journal owner John Ca... |
