Routledge Library Editions: Japan
About the Book Series
Routledge Library Editions: Japan brings together a century's worth of publishing and provides a comprehensive collection of volumes which chart the literature, history, economics, politics & sociology of this fascinating country.
Japan's Foreign Policies
1st Edition
By A Pooley
November 01, 2010
This volume draws together material from The Japan Chronicle, The Japan Gazette and the China Treaty Port foreign papers, all of which are of great historical value. The Japan and China Treaty Port foreign papers frequently contain important articles translated from the vernacular press. These ...
Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan From the Earliest Times to A D 697
1st Edition
Edited
By W Aston
November 01, 2010
The Nihongi is the standard native history of Ancient Japan. This volume, originally published in 1896 and now of classic status makes accessible to European scholars the extensive store of material for the study of mythology, folk-lore, early civilization and manners and customs which it contains....
The Affair of the Madre de Deus: A Chapter in the History of the Portuguese in Japan.
1st Edition
By C Boxer
November 01, 2010
The fact that the Portuguese opened up the Far East to European maritime enterprise is well known, but the prosperity to which their trade attained in that region is less so, as historians have tended to dwell on the English or Dutch activities. The period of Luso-Japanese trade is therefore of ...
The Arab Gulf States and Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Walid Sharif
November 01, 2010
During the 1970s and ‘80s economic relations between the Arab Gulf States and Japan grew enormously. Approximately 65% of Japan’s oil requirements were met from Arab Gulf resources. However, although Japanese imports of Arab oil comprise the major component of trade, Arab imports of Japanese goods ...
The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720 - 1830
1st Edition
By Donald Keene
November 01, 2010
Originally published in 1952, this account of the growth and uses of Western learning in Japan has been enlarged by two new chapters that extend the story from 1798 to 1830. The author has incorporated the results of recent research by scholars in Japan and the West and made corrections in the text...
The Maker of Modern Japan: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu
1st Edition
By A Sadler
November 01, 2010
Tokugawa Ieyasu founded a dynasty of rulers, organized a system of government and set in train the re-orientation of the religion of Japan so that he would take the premier place in it. Calm, capable and entirely fearless, Ieyasu deliberately brought the opposition to a head and crushed in a ...
The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire
1st Edition
By David James
November 01, 2010
This volume is a history of the Japanese drive for the conquest of Greater East Asia. It includes an account of the Malayan campaign and the Fall of Singapore, followed by an outline of the dominant features of the campaign in S E Asia and the Pacific and ending with the attack on Japan and the ...
An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan: 1931-1945
1st Edition
By Shunsuke Tsurumi
October 29, 2010
When this book was published in Japanese in 1982 it was awarded the prestigious Jiro Osaragi Prize. It is an important contribution to the understanding of the mental and spiritual world of Japan just over two generations ago. The author argues that just as the period of isolation up to the middle ...
Education in Tokugawa Japan
1st Edition
By Ronald Dore
October 29, 2010
Japanese cultural life had reached a low ebb at the beginning of the Tokugawa period. The Japanese society which emerged when Tokugawa Ieyasu had completed the process of pacifying warring baronies was neither literary, nor hardly literate. The rulers were warriors and the people they ruled were ...
Government by Assassination
1st Edition
By Hugh Byas
October 29, 2010
Written by someone who spent twenty-three years as a journalist in Japan, this book describes the political and military aspirations of Japan at a tumultuous period of twentieth century history. The book examines the workings of the Japanese government and discusses the role of the military in ...
Japan's Economic Offensive in China
1st Edition
By Lowe Chuan Hua
October 29, 2010
This volume exposes Japan’s motives and designs on the economic front, pointing out the dangers of her policy of ousting Western interests and influence from East Asia during the conflict with China in Manchuria. The author urges the American and British governments to reconsider their position and...
Japan's Political Warfare
1st Edition
By Peter de Mendelssohn
October 29, 2010
After more than six years of active fighting in the Far East and over two years of open war between Japan and the Anglo-Saxon powers, Japanese political warfare was still a factor largely unknown in the Western world. Overshadowed by the much nearer and more closely felt exertions of the Nazi ...