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How Human Is Human?
How Human Is Human?
Ishiguro Hiroshi
Translated by Tony Gonzalez

How Human Is Human?: The View from Robotics Research presents an overview of various androids create...
Human Resource Development in Twentieth-Century Japan
Human Resource Development in Twentieth-Century Japan
Inoki Takenori
Translated by Tony Gonzalez
For Japan, where natural resources are not abundant, the importance of human resources cannot be ove...
If There Were No Japan
If There Were No Japan
Roger Pulvers
An award-winning writer and translator who has immersed himself in Japanese culture for half a centu...
An Introduction to Yōkai Culture
An Introduction to Yōkai Culture
Komatsu Kazuhiko
Translated by Hiroko Yoda and Matt Alt
Since ancient times, the Japanese have lived with superstitions of strange presences and phenomena k...
Japan in Asia
Japan in Asia
Tanaka Akihiko
Translated by Jean Connell Hoff
Official development assistance (ODA), direct investment in Southeast Asia, participation in the Cam...
Japan's Approach to Legal and Judicial Development in Developing Countries
Japan's Approach to Legal and Judicial Development in Developing Countries
English edition edited by Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC)
Beginning with the drafting of Vietnam’s civil law in 1996, the Japan International Cooperation Agen...
Japan's Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia
Japan's Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia
Miyagi Taizo
Translated by Hanabusa Midori
More than any other region in the world, Asia has witnessed tremendous change in the post-war era. A...
Japan's Wooden Heritage
Japan's Wooden Heritage
Fujimori Terunobu and Fujitsuka Mitsumasa
Translated by Hart Larrabee
Japan's Wooden Heritage: A Journey Through a Thousand Years of Architecture brings together essays b...
Japan-China Relations in the Modern Era
Japan-China Relations in the Modern Era
Kokubun Ryosei, Soeya Yoshihide, Takahara Akio, Kawashima Shin
Translated by Keith Krulak
From before the dawn of recorded history, there has been a rich flow of interaction between Japan ...
The Japan-US Alliance of Hope
The Japan-US Alliance of Hope
Edited by Nakasone Peace Institute
Supervised by Kitaoka Shinichi and Kubo Fumiaki
Translated by Charles Stewart and Anai Ikuo
The Japan-US alliance has continued to deepen and develop for around sixty years, responding to the ...
Japanese Art in Perspective
Japanese Art in Perspective
Takashina Shūji
Translated by Matt Treyvaud
How do Japanese and Western aesthetics differ? In this comparative cultural study, Takashina Shūji, ...
The Japanese Linguistic Landscape
The Japanese Linguistic Landscape
Nakanishi Susumu
Translated by Ryan Shaldjian Morrison
Photographs by Nakanishi Kimiko
Languages change over time. No matter how hard we try to control and regulate them, they exist in a ...