Trefferliste "Japan History" - alle Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr

James J Orr

Rounding the Bases

Rounding the Bases offers the first comprehensive history of Japanese Little League, tracing its origins near U.S. military bases in the 1950s to its rise as one of the world's most successful youth sport…

The "Inheritance" of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

ith 2025 marking the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this timely study focuses on the challenge of keisho or "inheritance" and the way a new generation of scholars and activists is r…

Robert Lyman,

Operation Longcloth 1943

A fascinating look at the campaign that launched the Chindit myth and saw Orde Wingate's long range patrol group wreak havoc across the Japanese lines.Arriving in Burma in 1942 to survey the environment a…

James J Orr

Rounding the Bases

Rounding the Bases offers the first comprehensive history of Japanese Little League, tracing its origins near U.S. military bases in the 1950s to its rise as one of the world's most successful youth sport…

Generation Radio

Take 2

GENERATION RADIO melden sich mit „Take Two“ zurück, dem lang erwarteten Nachfolger ihres gefeierten Debüts. Das Album liefert eine weitere Meisterleistung im AOR/Westcoast-Rock, verfeinert mit dem perfekt…

Sayaka Chatani

A Nation Within

The presence of hundreds of thousands ethnic Koreans in Japan, or "zainichi Koreans," is one of the visible legacies of Japanese colonialism. A surprising and influential group among zainichi Ko…

Akiko Takenaka

Mothers Against War

Mothers Against War examines the shifting relationships among motherhood, peace activism, and women's rights in the decades following Japan's defeat in 1945. With a focus on the concept of bosei, generall…

Anirudh Rao

Mitsubishi J2m Raiden

The Mitsubishi J2M Raiden was constructed as an interceptor with high horizontal speed and climb rate. Achieving good performance in the aforementioned parameters resulted in worse maneuverability, but it…

Natalia Doan

Civil War Samurai

In 1860, seventeen-year-old samurai Tateishi Onojirō, nicknamed "Tommy," made headlines across America for his real and imagined adventures as part of the 1860 Japanese Embassy, the first Japane…

Robert K Fitts

In the Japanese Ballpark

Baseball is the national pastime of both the United States and Japan, but the two countries approach and play the game differently both on the field and away from it. To shed light on these differences an…

Garrett M Graff

The Devil Reached Toward the Sky

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Magisterial...A stunning account that brings to the fore the nuclear saga's surreal combination of ingenuity, fate, and terror." ---Publishers Weekly (starred review…

Teru Hasegawa,

Whispers from a Storm

Whispers from a Storm is a collection of political writing by the Japanese human rights activist and Esperantist Hasegawa Teru (1912--1947). In 1937, the twenty-five-year-old Hasegawa sailed from her home…

James Beresford

Rethinking the Greek Campaign to Repatriate the Parthenon Marbles

Offering an incisive examination into aspects of the controversy regarding ownership of the marble sculptures infamously removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin in the early nineteenth century, this volu…

Matt Treyvaud

Literary Landscapes: Tokyo

From Samurai sagas to Shibuya stories - discover the blossoming bookshops, bars, and backstreets of Japan's literary capital.Tokyo is a city of contrasts - where centuries-old haiku echo in temple gardens…

Karim Javan

A Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, Vol. 1

Of the hundreds of Persian manuscripts preserved at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, many have long remained unknown or little studied . This open-access volume presents the first comprehensive catalogue…

Joshua Schlachet

Nourishing Life

Can food determine your fate? Could indulging in delicacies bring calamity to your community? Nourishing Life reevaluates the history of Japanese food culture by examining how ideas of healthy eating beca…

Jeffrey Cox

Devil's Fire, Southern Cross

A fast-paced and absorbing read of the final months of the crucial Guadalcanal-Solomons campaign during the Pacific War by esteemed World War II historian Jeffrey Cox.This page-turning history examines th…

Roselia

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Kenzaburo Oe,

Hiroshima Notes

Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe's account of the lives of the many victims of Hiroshima and the valia…