Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, Date: 2001. Full Leather. Fine binding. Six quarto volumes; in the publisher's blue leather binding with decorations and titling in gilt; all edges gilt; raised bandswith silk ribbon markers; silk moire endpapers; there are no marks or bookplates in any of the volumes.~~A magnificent set. Fine binding. 2001. Easton Press US

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Date: 1999. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Books present nicely with unclipped dust jackets wrapped in protective archival sleeves. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jackets. Books are bound in red cloth over boards with spines lettered in black and gilt. Pages of all volumes are clean and unmarked. Bindings are sound. This set is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS SET: The Cambridge History of Japan is the first major collaborative synthesis to present the current state of knowledge of Japanese history for the English-reading world. The series draws on the expertise and research of leading Japanese specialists as well as the foremost Western historians of Japan. From prehistory to the present day, the series encompasses the events and developments in Japanese polity, economy, culture, religion and foreign affairs. In the distinguished tradition of Cambridge histories, the completed series provides an indispensable reference tool for all students and scholars of Japan and the Far East.(Publisher). 1999. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521657288 US

Norman Herbert: The Emergence of the Modern State in Japan: A Soldier and a Peasant in Japan In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Norman Gerbert. Voznikonovenie sovremennogo gosudarstva v Yaponii. Soldat i krestyanin v Yaponii Moscow Publishing House of Oriental Literature 1961. 296 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbef8c7feaa7d7a1a3
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Modern Japan. Compilation 1 and 2 (kit). In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Sovremennaya Yaponiya. Sbornik 1 i 2 (komplekt).. Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).M Institute of World Economy and World Politics. 1934. 304 + 232 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbaab432c97557ba47
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ISBN10: 0870110500, ISBN13: 9780870110504, [publisher: Kodansha International, Tokyo] Hardcover black cloth, gilt lettering, red design, dust jacket, paper slipcases, 236, 229 pp, presented as a gift to Prof. Olivier from the staff of the Dept. of Surgery of the Jichi Medical School, Japan 10 Fev., 1979. slipcases worn and torn Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
[Paris, France] [Publication Year: 1978]
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ISBN10: 1107196132, ISBN13: 9781107196131, [publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge] Hardcover Hardcover. This major new volume presents innovative recent scholarship on Japan's modern history, including its imperial past and transregional entanglements. An international team of leading scholars offer accessible and thought-provoking essays that present an expansive global vision of the archipelago's history from c. 1868 to the twenty-first century. Japan was the first non-Western society to become a modern nation and empire, to industrialize, and to deliver a high standard of living to virtually all its citizens, capturing international attention ever since. These Japanese efforts to reshape global hierarchies powered a variety of debates and conflicts, both at home and with people and places beyond Japan's shores. Drawing on the latest Japanese and English-language scholarship, this volume highlights Japan's distinctive and fast-changing history. A major new reference volume presenting innovative recent scholarship on Japan's modern history, including its imperial past and trans-regional entanglements. Leading international scholars offer accessible and thought-provoking essays that provide an expansive global vision of the archipelago's history from c.1868 to the twenty-first century. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Tokyo:: University of Tokyo Press,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Date: 1990. Hardcover. 0860084477 . Translated from the Japanese by Conrad Totman. First edition thus. Very near fine in like dust jacket. ; 240 pages . 1990. University of Tokyo Press, ISBN 0860084477 US

ISBN10: 0691636354, ISBN13: 9780691636351, [publisher: Princeton University Press, New Jersey] Hardcover Hardcover. Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of a modern Japanese novelist, Alan Wolfe draws on contemporary Western literary and cultural theories and on a knowledge of Dazai's work in the context Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of a modern Japanese novelist, Alan Wolfe draws on contemporary Western literary and cultural theories and on a knowledge of Dazai's work in the context Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
[Truganina, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 2016]

ISBN10: 1680537393, ISBN13: 9781680537390, [publisher: Academica Press, Bethesda] Hardcover Hardcover. A Survey of Catholic History in Modern Japan discusses Japanese Catholic history from the Meiji period (1868-1912) to the present. The aim of this highly original book is to consider the relevance of Japanese Catholics to political and cultural circumstances in modern and contemporary Japan. Discusses Japanese Catholic history from the Meiji period (1868-1912) to the present. The aim of this highly original book is to consider the relevance of Japanese Catholics to political and cultural circumstances in modern and contemporary Japan. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
[Truganina, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 2021]

Tokyo: Kodansha, Date: 1972. Hardcover. Orig. decorated beige cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrappers in clear plastic overwrappers. 2 Vols. 236, 229 pages. Folio, 36.5 x 27 cm. Two monumental works with a host of black and white, color and tipped-in plates. Chronology of Japanese Art until 1568 (Vol.I) and Chronology of Japanese Art from the Sixteenth Century. Supplementary Notes and Glossary in each volume. Interior contents bright and fresh. Book label of Ursus Books. 1972. Kodansha US

Used - isbn: 1032149426 - isbn13: 9781032149424 Routledge

ISBN10: 028564808X, ISBN13: 9780285648081, [publisher: Souvenir Press, London] Hardcover First Edition ix, 166pp, bw ills. Cloth in jacket. Light edge wear and some foxing to jacket, offset toning to endpapers, some foxing to page edges. For the first time in English, the great Japanese novelist Yukio Mushima's own adaptation and interpretation of Hagakure, the fascinating 18th century collection of writing on the "Way of the Samurai". Size: 8vo
[Ashmore, QLD, Australia] [Publication Year: 1977]

[publisher: Routledge Abingden 2003] Hardcover First Edition 1st edition laminated boards New book quarto xviii + 300pp., index, Since the late nineteenth century, religious ideas and practices in Japan have become increasingly intertwined with those associated with mental health and healing
[Melbourne, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 2003]

Collectibles - isbn: 0520245792 - isbn13: 9780520245792 University of California Press

Used - isbn: 1898823480 - isbn13: 9781898823483 Renaissance Books

Tokyo: Kodansha, Date: 1966. First. hardcover. near fine/very good. Translated and adapted by John Rosenfield and Glenn Webb. Photographs by Takahashi Bin. Profusely illustrated with mounted color plates and black and white photiogravures. 2 volumes. Folio, gilt-stamped two toned cloth, edge-worn d.w. Tokyo: Kodansha, (1966-1967). First edition. Near fiine copies in very good dust wrappers.<br/><br/> Volume I: Ancient and Medieval. Volume II: Late Medieval to Modern.<br/><br/> 1966. Kodansha US

ISBN10: 0691618399, ISBN13: 9780691618395, [publisher: Princeton University Press, New Jersey] Softcover Paperback. A study of agrarian thought in prewar Japan, this bonk concentrates on the developing fissure between official and rural conceptions of nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Professor Havens analyzes the response of Japanese farmers and their spokesmen to the pursuit of modernization during the Meiji and Taish? periods. A study of agrarian thought in prewar Japan, this bonk concentrates on the developing fissure between official and rural conceptions of nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Professor Havens analyzes the response of Japanese farmers and their spokesmen to the pursuit of modernization during the Meiji and Taish? periods. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
[Truganina, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 2015]

Used - isbn: 1350122491 - isbn13: 9781350122499 Bloomsbury Academic

Used - isbn: 0824851536 - isbn13: 9780824851538 University of Hawaii Press

[publisher: Weatherhill New York 1983] Hardcover 3rd printing hardback with dust jacket As New large octavo 190pp., b/w pls., index,
[Melbourne, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 1983]

ISBN10: 0710313373, ISBN13: 9780710313379, [publisher: Routledge, U,K, 2009.] Hardcover 8vo. laminated boards, hardcover. 286pp. index, b/w illus. Very good+, rubbing to cover corners.
[NARRABEEN, NSW, Australia] [Publication Year: 2009]
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ISBN10: 1403996709, ISBN13: 9781403996701, [publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, UK] Hardcover First Edition xvii+279pp., Illustrated dustjacket covered in removable protective clear plastic, black papered boards with corner wear & bump to upper spine-end, creasing to top corner of pages, preface, foreword by Leigh Sparks, diags., tables, ref., indexes. Japanese distribution was long seen as archaic and difficult to understand, but today that has changed. They are now so advanced that the very best are bursting out of the Japanese market and opening up stores across Asia and even as far as Western Europe. This book through case studies and concrete examples, provide the most detailed analysis of retailing in Japan ever written. Size: Octavo
[Melbourne, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 2005]

[Tokyo]: Nippon Superior Products Association, Date: 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. black & white photos, 209p. Original decorated cloth. 26cm. Cover slightly warped. No Jacket. 1938. Nippon Superior Products Association US

Tokyo, Japan: Keishosha Publishing Co. Ltd, Date: 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 216 pages. Text in English and Japanese. Includes numerous color illustrations. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and a near fine illustrated slipcase that has some very slight wear. An attractive production. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. 1986. Keishosha Publishing Co. Ltd ISBN 4874391052 US

ISBN10: 1736863347, ISBN13: 9781736863343, [publisher: Letterform Archive] Softcover Paperback. A revelatory, beautifully produced compendium of the influential Japanese commercial design journal, with posters, billboards, shop window displays and moreFrom 1928 to 1930, Tokyo publisher Ars issued The Complete Commercial Artist: a fully illustrated journal of commercial design for both commercial retail spaces and print design. Featuring countless original designs, its 24 volumes were dedicated to topics ranging from posters, packaging, flyers, page layout and typography to neon signage, billboards and shop window displays. Under the guidance of lead editor and writer Hamada Masuji, a passionate advocate for commercial design, the publication became the most importantand visually dazzlingdocument of Japanese design in its time.This generous volume from Letterform Archive Books shares hundreds of exuberant and whimsical pages from all 24 volumes of the now-rare publication. An extensive historical essay and volume-by-volume walk-throughs by art historian Gennifer Weisenfeld introduce readers to the magazine's creators and offer analyses of their use of illustration, photography, typography and lettering, highlighting both Japanese and European influences as new forms of media sparked a global dialogue.Presented for the first time to an English audience, The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan 19281930 takes readers on an eye-opening tour of ...