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The Story of Japan's Ohmi Merchants
From its very origins, Ohmi was a highly developed region bordering Kyoto, the center of political p...
The Music of Color
“I have received color without limit from the natural world in the years since I entered the dyer’s ...
The Book of Urushi
Urushi, Japanese lacquerware, is perhaps the oldest and most sublime of all the Japanese arts and cr...
The Art of Emptiness
For several hundred years, Japanese porcelain has been highly acclaimed and sought after around the ...
The Lure of Pokémon
Video games are often thought to draw children out of nature and into isolated, closed spaces. In Th...
The Remarkable History of Japan-US Relations
After the Pacific War, the bitter enemies Japan and the United States became fast friends and allies...
Toward the Meiji Revolution
In 2018, Japan marked the 150th anniversary of the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the establ...
Security Politics in Japan
How can peace be realized in the modern world? And how can Japan ensure its own security? Despite th...
Friendship across the Seas
This book describes the history of the relationship between the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (J...
Understanding History in Asia
It is said that the twentieth century was a century of war. War and colonization can leave deep divi...
What Is Japanese Cinema?
What might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozu's sparse portaits of d...
Pilgrimages in the Secular Age
Religion and tourism seem to be an unlikely pair, but in fact, taking a look at these two human beha...