Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life.” —The Washington PostThe remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai, an...
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History of Japan: From early history to the present day
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /History of Japan: From early history to the present day Introduction to Japan's history Are you interested in the history of Japan? Would you lik...
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War and State Building in Medieval Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The nation state as we know it is a mere four or five hundred years old. Remarkably, a central government with vast territorial control emerged i...
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /2019 Reprint of the 1946 Edition by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. Noted American anthropologist Ruth Benedict wrote this book at the invitati...
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Japan's War: The Great Pacific Conflict / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The many factors that led to Japan's participation in World War II, and the horrifying battles that resulted, come into focus in Japan's War: The...
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Sumo: A History of the Sport
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Sumo is the official national sport of Japan, as recognized by the country's government. It is built around the simple concept of two nigh-naked ...
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Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /In Resurrecting Nagasaki, Chad R. Diehl explores the genesis of narratives surrounding the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945, by following the ind...
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Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /This reexamination of the controversial role Emperor Hirohito played during the Pacific War gives particular attention to the question: If the em...
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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our earl...
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Samurai Swords - A Collector's Guide: A Comprehensive Introduction to History, Collecting and Preservation - of the Japanese Sword
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Japanese swords, particularly those wielded by famous samurai warriors, hold a continuing fascination for collectors of fine arts and historical ...
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Tokyo: A Biography: Disasters, Destruction and Renewal: The Story of an Indomitable City
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The history of Tokyo is as eventful as it is long. A concise yet detailed overview of this fascinating, centuries-old city, Tokyo: A Biography is...
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Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend...
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The Fugu Plan: The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews During World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /If someone who is rich and powerful comes to you for a favor, you don't persecute him – you help him. Having such a person indebted to you is a g...
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Japan: Its History and Culture / Edition 4
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Once a star of postwar industrial production and methods,Japan has encountered serious trouble with market forces in recent years. Social changes...
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Samurai!
HardcoverOriginal price $37.95 - Original price $37.95Original price $37.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Editorial Reviews Product Description This text documents the chivalry and valour of the combat aviator, Saburo Sakai, who fought American fighte...
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The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shatter...
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The Book of Tea
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In 1906 in turn-of-the century Boston, a small, esoteric book about tea was written with the intention of being read aloud in the famous salon o...
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Okinawa: The History of an Island People
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"The first full-length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western language…a standard work."—Pacific Affairs Okinawa: The Hist...
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Japan at War in the Pacific: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire in Asia: 1868-1945
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"A lucid history of the rise and fall of militarism in Japan…" —New York Journal of BooksJapan at War in the Pacific recounts the dramatic story ...
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Ninja: 1,000 Years of the Shadow Warrior
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The definitive history of the ninja, based on a wealth of historical texts, local Japanese sources, and John Man's own treks across Asia “An imme...
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The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps: The Bloody Battles and Intrigues of the Shinsengumi
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Power to them meant everything. It was founded on courage, which begot honor. And by this courage and for this honor they fought to the death."T...
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Modern Ninja Warfare: Ninja Tactics for the Modern Warrior
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Modern Ninja Warfare takes a contemporary look at the stealthy methods of the Ninja (Shinobi). Ninja historian Antony Cummins, himself a skilled ...
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Japan and the Shackles of the Past
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains ...
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Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong—more than f...
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