Japan History

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Bring meaning and joy to all your days with this internationally bestselling guide to the Japanese concept of ikigai (pronounced eekeyguy)the happiness of always being busyas revealed by the daily habits of the worlds longestliving people.Whats your ikigaiOnly staying active will make you want to live a hundred years. Japanese proverb According...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around About, Japan, NonFiction, China, History lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for big-picture nonfiction and accessible learning. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

"An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future. Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr brings to life the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo's boardrooms during the heady Bu...

This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priestqueens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in selfimposed seclusion.First revealed to Westerners in the chronicles of Marco Polo, Japan was a legendary faraway land defende...

A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Fourth Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunatethe feudal overlordship of the Tokugawa familythrough the modernizing revolution launched by midlevel samurai in th...

In Bending Adversity, Financial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan, drawing on his own deep experience, as well as observations from a cross section of Japanese citizenry, including novelist Haruki Murakami, former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, industrialists and bankers, activists and artists, teenagers and octoge...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of ...