Published Titles
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Japan-China Relations in the Modern Era
From before the dawn of recorded history, there has been a rich flow of interaction between Japan ...
The Japanese Linguistic Landscape
Languages change over time. No matter how hard we try to control and regulate them, they exist in a ...
The Japanese Sense of Beauty
What makes Japanese art unique? In The Japanese Sense of Beauty, art critic and historian Takashina ...
Kabuki, a Mirror of Japan
In this delightfully engaging look at Japan’s traditional dance-drama, Matsui Kesako approaches kabu...
Landscape Gardener Ogawa Jihei and His Times
Securing the generous support of the politicians and industrialists who propelled Japan’s modernizat...
Listen to the Voice of the Earth
“I wrote this book in the hope that readers will be able to save their own lives as well as those of...
The Lure of Pokémon
Video games are often thought to draw children out of nature and into isolated, closed spaces. In Th...
Mixing Work with Pleasure
Toshio Suzuki has devoted himself to Studio Ghibli for some thirty years, producing such world-renow...
The Music of Color
“I have received color without limit from the natural world in the years since I entered the dyer’s ...
Mutsu Munemitsu and His Time
Toward the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, Mutsu Munemitsu was ousted from his home Kishu-han as a re...
Myth and Deity in Japan
Shinto is a tradition native to Japan that arose naturally on the eastern fringe of the Eurasian con...
The People and Culture of Japan
This book features conversations between Donald Keene, a preeminent scholar of Japanese literature, ...