History. Geography
| Japan | |
| Books and boats : Sino-Japanese relations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Ōba Osamu ; translated by Joshua A. Fogel. -- Portland, Me. : Merwin Asia, c2012. -- xi, 324 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN 9781937385125 ; 1937385124 ; 9781937385132 ; 1937385132 |
GB381-B24 |
| Building democracy in Japan / Mary Alice Haddad. -- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. -- xix, 250 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN 9781107014077 ; 9781107601697 |
GB411-B60 |
| Burma, 1942 : the road from Rangoon to Mandalay / Alan Warren. -- London ; New York : Continuum, 2011. -- x, 283 p., [8] p. of plates ; 25 cm
ISBN 1441152504 ; 9781441152503 ; 1441133704 ; 9781441133700 ; 1441106731 ; 9781441106735 |
GB541-B164 |
| B-29s over Japan, 1944-1945 : a group commander's diary / Samuel Russ Harris, Jr. ; edited by Robert A. Mann. -- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2011. -- vii, 259 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN 9780786462971 ; 0786462973 |
GB554-B328 |
| Captain P.I. Rikord's voyages to Japan during 1811-1813 : commemorating the release of his comrades from captivity : bicentennial anniversary edition / P.I. Rikord [著]. -- [龍ケ崎] : Lin Sho Doh, [2012]. -- 149p ; 21cm
ISBN 9781470163037 |
GB648-B208 |
| Counting the days : POWs, internees, and stragglers of World War II in the Pacific / Craig B. Smith. -- Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, [2012]. -- xxv, 260 p. ; 24 cm
Contents: December 1941 -- Origins -- Davao Gold Mine -- Insular patrol -- Yokohama Bank -- Argentina Maru -- The dentist's house -- Zentsuji -- Relocation -- American sojourn -- Across the Gulf of Davao -- Osaka -- Houses in the jungle -- A riot and a marriage -- Happy life blues cabaret -- Hirohata -- The battle for Guam -- MacArthur returns -- Free at last -- Prisoner of war number 1 -- Home from Manzanar -- Stragglers: prisoners of conscience -- Picking up the pieces -- Epilogue: prisoners today ISBN 9781588343550 |
GB554-B325 |
| Empire of dogs : canines, Japan, and the making of the modern imperial world / Aaron Herald Skabelund. -- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011. -- xv, 267 p. ; 25 cm. -- (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)
Contents: The native dog and the colonial dog -- Civilizing canines, or, domesticating and destroying dogs -- Fascism's furry friends : the "loyal dog" Hachik and the creation of the "Japanese" dog -- Dogs of war : mobilizing all creatures great and small -- A dog's world : the commodification of contemporary dog keeping ISBN 9780801450259 |
GB411-B59 |
| Extremes : living the contradictions of contemporary Japan / G.M. Thomas. -- London : Kaichan, 2004. -- 256 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN 0954678907 ; 9780954678906 |
GB648-B210 |
| Four years till tomorrow : despair and hope in wartime Dutch East Indies : a collection of 26 eye witness stories / by members of the August 15, 1945 Foundation ; Sheri G. Tromp, editor. -- Surrey, B.C. : Vanderheide, c1999. -- xiv, 204 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN 1895815045 |
GB531-B188 |
| From Japan with love : 1946-1948 / Mary A. (Kiddie) Ruggieri. -- 1st ed. -- San Rafael : Portsmouth Pub., 2007. -- iii, 264 p. ; 22 x 26 cm
ISBN 9780979875717 |
GB566-B31 |
| From sovereign to symbol : an age of ritual determinism in fourteenth century Japan / Thomas Donald Conlan. -- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. -- xiv, 231 p. ; 25 cm
Contents: The Rise of the Administrative Nobility -- Kitabatake Chikafusa and the Unveiling of Court Secrets -- The Master of Ritual -- The Destruction of Precedent -- Creating Court and Sovereign -- The End of the Past -- The Ashikaga Emperor -- Epilogue: The Unraveling ISBN 9780199778102 |
GB211-B18 |
| Geketende democratie : Japan achter de schermen / Hans van der Lugt. -- Amsterdam : Prometheus ; Rotterdam : NRC Handelsblad, 2008. -- 222 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN 9789044609462 ; 9044609467 |
GB63-B198 |
| Hachinohe = = 八戸 / edited by Hachinohe City general policies Public Relations Section. -- Hachinohe : The City of Hachinohe, [2012]. -- 23p ; 30cm
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GC15-B2 |
| Hell on earth : aging faster, dying sooner : Canadian prisoners of the Japanese during World War II / Dave McIntosh ; foreword by Mac Johnston. -- Toronto ; New York : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, c1997. -- x, 277 p., [8] p. of plates ; 24 cm
ISBN 0075528215 ; 9780075528210 |
GB554-B323 |
| Indomitable will : turning defeat into victory from Pearl Harbor to Midway / Charles Kupfer. -- London ; New York : Continuum, c2012. -- xi, 440 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN 9780826410689 ; 0826410685 |
GB541-B168 |
| Japan : light and shadows in the land of the rising sun / [text and photographs, Iago Corazza and Greta Ropa]. -- Vercelli, Italy : White Star Publishers, c2010. -- 271 p. ; 32 cm
ISBN 9788854405745 ; 8854405744 |
GB641-B146 |
| Japan emerging : premodern history to 1850 / edited by Karl F. Friday. -- Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2012. -- xviii, 478 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN 9780813344836 ; 9780813345611 |
GB71-B112 |
| Japan 1555-1800 = = 日本関連英語文献書誌1555-1800 / edited by Takau Shimada. -- Tokyo : Edition Synapse, 2012.3. -- 325p ; 27cm
ISBN 978-4-86166-147-1 |
GB1-B22 |
| Japan.vol. 10. -- Tokyo : Euro Press, c2008-2009. -- 74p ; 24×12cm. -- (Yellow guide for world travellers = 世界を旅する人のイエローガイド ; 23)
vol. 10. ISBN 978-4-89718-225-4 |
GB645-B55 |
| Japan.vol. 11. -- Tokyo : Euro Press, c2010-2011. -- 74p ; 24×12cm. -- (Yellow guide for world travellers = 世界を旅する人のイエローガイド ; 23)
vol. 11. ISBN 978-4-89718-246-9 |
GB645-B56 |
| Japon : la fabrique des futurs / Jean-François Sabouret. -- Paris : CNRS, c2011. -- 78 p. ; 17 cm
ISBN 9782271071385 |
GB63-B200 |
| The journal and official correspondence of Bernard Jean Bettelheim 1845-54.part 2 / Bernard Jean Bettelheim [著] ; edited by A.P. Jenkins. -- 那覇 : 沖縄県教育委員会, 2012.3. -- 732p ; 27cm. -- (沖縄県史 / 沖縄県教育庁文化財課史料編集班 編; ; 資料編 22 (近世 3))
part 2. 1852-54 |
GC311-B34 |
| Kalidjati : 8-9 maart 1942 : de ondergang van een wereldrijk / door W. Buijze. -- [Nederland] : W. Buijze, 2008. -- ix, 117 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN 9789080452763 ; 9080452769 |
GB531-B189 |
| Metamorphosis of Japan after the war. -- [東京] : The Japan Foundation, c2011. -- 63p ; 25cm + 1冊
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GB561-B64 |
| Ninja attack! = = 外国人のための忍者常識マニュアル / Hiroko Yoda, Matt Alt [著]. -- Revised edition. -- Tokyo : Tuttle Publishing, [2012]. -- 207p ; 19cm
ISBN 978-4-8053-1218-6 |
GB97-B12 |
| The Pacific War as total war : 2011 International Forum on War History: proceedings : September 14, 2011 Toshi Center Hotel. -- Tokyo : National Institute for Defense Studies, 2012.3. -- 194p ; 26cm
ISBN 978-4-939034-92-3 |
GB531-B192 |
| Pearl Harbor : FDR leads the nation into war / Steven M. Gillon. -- New York : Basic Books, c2011. -- xvi, 224 p. ; 25 cm
Contents: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars -- Do not let the talks deteriorate -- This means war -- This is no drill! -- Have you heard the news? -- I don't know how secure this phone is -- Infamy -- Get to the White House fastasyoucan -- Do you think we ought to have soldiers around the White House? -- We are all in the same boat now -- Deadly calm -- I will go down in disgrace -- 1861 -- Where were our forces -- asleep -- I hope Mr. Capone doesn't mind -- Epilogue ISBN 9780465021390 ; 0465021395 |
GB531-B190 |
| Performing the great peace : political space and open secrets in Tokugawa Japan / Luke S. Roberts. -- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2012. -- 263 p. ; 24 cm
Contents: The geography of politics -- Performing the Tokugawa right to know -- Politics of the living dead -- Territorial border disputes -- Daimyo gods -- Histories ISBN 9780824835132 |
GB341-B23 |
| Pli sciu pri Hirosima = = もっと広島を知ろう / verkis: Ĵurnalo Tyûgoku-sinbun ; tradukis Hirosima Esperanto-Societo. -- Hirosima : Hirosima Esperanto-Societo ; Oosaka : Riveroj (発売), 2012.5. -- 54p ; 21cm
ISBN 978-4-947691-27-9 |
GC223-B13 |
| Prayers for peace : recollections of schoolgirls in Hiroshima. -- [広島] : 45th Class Memorial Committee, Yuho-kai Alumni Association Hiroshima Prefectural First Girls' High School, 2012.2. -- 13, 87p ; 26cm + 2枚
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GB554-B327 |
| Researching twenty-first century Japan : new directions and approaches for the electronic age / edited by Timothy Iles and Peter Matanle. -- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012. -- xvi, 382 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN 9780739170144 ; 0739170147 |
GB61-B87 |
| Sakai City profile = = 堺.2012 / edited by Public Relations Division, Sakai City Government. -- Sakai : Public Relations Division, Sakai City Government, [2012]. -- 34p ; 30cm
2012. |
GC165-B10 |
| Schonungslos Japanisch : ein High-School-Jahr zwischen Moderne, Tradition, Gastfamilie und Manga / Mona I. Thraen. -- Hamburg : Traveldiary.de Reiseliteratur-Verl., c2012. -- 310 p. ; 20 cm. -- (Reisebericht)
ISBN 9783941796379 ; 3941796372 |
GB641-B144 |
| Survivor : a personal memoir of one soldier's experience in the battle for the Philippines, the Bataan death march, Japanese slave labor camps & escape from the Japanese hell ship, the Shinyo Maru / by John Playter. -- 1st ed. -- Bolivar, Mo. : Southwest Baptist University, c2000. -- 158 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN 0925359157 |
GB554-B324 |
| The strategy of the axis powers in the Pacific War : NIDS International Forum on War History: proceedings 2010 / edited by National Institute for Defense Studies. -- Tokyo : National Institute for Defense Studies, 2011.3. -- 193p ; 26cm
ISBN 978-4-939034-76-3 |
GB541-B167 |
| Tôkyô : portraits & fictions = 東京断想 / [texte de] Manuel Tardits ; [illustrations de] Nobumasa Takahashi, Stéphane Lagré. -- Blou : Le Gac, 2011. -- 319 p. ; 21 cm. -- (Écrits)
ISBN 9782364090118 ; 2364090113 |
GB63-B199 |
| Tokyo commute : Japanese customs and way of life viewed from the Odakyū Line / by A. Robert Lee ; line compositions by Yuriko Yamamoto. -- Folkestone, Kent : Renaissance Books, 2011. -- x, 214 p. ; 22 cm
ISBN 9781898823063 ; 1898823065 |
GB63-B201 |
| Tradition, democracy and the townscape of Kyoto : claiming a right to the past / Christoph Brumann. -- London : Routledge, c2012. -- xii, 423 p. ; 24 cm. -- (Japan anthropology workshop series)
ISBN 9780415690706 ; 9780203135846 |
GC156-B19 |
| Travel guide to aid Japan / Editorial directed by Masanobu Sugatsuke ; WAttention Co., Ltd. 編. -- Tokyo : WAttention, 2011.8. -- 159p ; 15cm
ISBN 978-4-905488-00-2 |
GB645-B54 |
| Voices of early modern Japan : contemporary accounts of daily life during the age of the shoguns / Constantine Nomikos Vaporis. -- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2012. -- liii, 273 p. ; 29 cm
Contents: The domestic sphere. Getting married ; Obtaining a divorce ; The consequences of adultery ; A woman's place -- Material life. Regulating fashion and consumption ; Samurai dress and grooming standards ; Lunisolar calendar ; Japanese foodways and diet ; The communal bath ; The Japanese home -- The political sphere. A foreigner's view of the Battle of Osaka ; Forging political order ; The emperor and the Kyoto aristocracy ; Weapons control in Japanese society ; Self-governance in villages ; Regulating townspeople in two cities -- Foreign relations. Regulating foreign relations ; Tokugawa Japan and Choson Korea ; Leaving a window open to the Western world ; A Dutch audience with the shogun ; Sizing up the foreign threat -- Social and economic life. The social estates ; Trying to get by on a fixed income ; The samurai and death ; Private vengeance among samurai ; Rules of merchant houses ; Dealing with deviant behavior ; Loans among the peasantry ; Unrest in the countryside ; Outcastes in Tokugawa society -- Recreational life. Advice to travelers in the Edo period ; Documentation for travel ; Children and their amusements ; The tea ceremony ; Archery and the martial arts ; Courtesans and the sex trade ; A hero for the masses -- Religion and morality. Preaching to the people ; Anti-Christian propaganda ; Controlling the populace ; Religious views of the Japanese ; The teachings of Zen Buddhism ISBN 9780313392009 ; 0313392005 ; 9780313392016 ; 0313392013 |
GB391-B32 |
| Woedende witte pyjama's : een Engelsman in het bizarre, hedendaagse Japan / Robert Twigger ; [vertaling uit het Engels, Pieter Cramer]. -- 's-Gravenhage : BZZTôH ; Roeselare : distributie in Vlaanderen, Roularta Books, 2001. -- 319 p. ; 22 cm
ISBN 905501835X ; 9789055018352 ; 9054668490 ; 9789054668497 |
GB648-B209 |
| Wojna rosyjsko-japońska, 1904-1905 : działania na morzu / Piotr Olender. -- Kraków : Polska Akademia Umiejętności, 2010. -- 647 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN 9788376760360 ; 837676036X |
GB441-B111 |
| Yokai attack! = = 外国人のための妖怪サバイバルガイド / Hiroko Yoda, Matt Alt [著]. -- Revised edition. -- Tokyo : Tuttle Publishing, [2012]. -- 205p ; 19cm
ISBN 978-4-8053-1219-3 |
GD38-B14 |
| Yurei attack! = = 外国人のための幽霊ふれあいガイド / Hiroko Yoda, Matt Alt [著]. -- Tokyo : Tuttle Publishing, c2012. -- 191p ; 20cm
ISBN 978-4-8053-1214-8 |
GD38-B15 |
| Other countries | |
| Brokers of empire : Japanese settler colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945 / Jun Uchida. -- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : distributed by Harvard University Press, 2011. -- xvi, 481 p. ; 24 cm. -- (Harvard East Asian monographs ; 337)
ISBN 9780674062535 |
GE129-B18 |
| In a sea of bitterness : refugees during the Sino-Japanese War / R. Keith Schoppa. -- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011. -- 346 p., [12] p. of plates ; 24 cm
Contents: The thousand-person pit -- A world where ghosts wailed -- Confronting the refugee crisis -- Veering into the ravine -- Days of suffering -- The kidnapping of Chinese civilians -- Government on the move -- Playing hide-and-seek with the enemy -- Guerrilla education -- Wartime business -- Scorched earth -- Trading and smuggling -- Bubonic bombs -- Remaking homes ISBN 9780674059887 |
GE333-B14 |
| Biography | |
| En lille mand fra Nanataki / Liam Nolan ; med efterskrift af Sir Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke. -- København : Unitas, 1966. -- 150 p. ; 21 cm
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GK154-1 |
| Matsumoto Shigeharu bearing witness / Kaimai Jun [著] ; English adaptation by Waku Miller. -- Tokyo : International House of Japan, 2012.3. -- 219p ; 24cm. -- (LTCB international library selection = 長銀国際ライブラリー叢書 ; no. 31)
ISBN 978-4-924971-33-2 |
GK81-B1 |
| Nurturing dreams : my path in life : an autobiography by the founder of Panasonic. / Konosuke Matsushita [著]. -- Kyoto : PHP Institute, 2012.6. -- 158p ; 20cm
ISBN 978-4-569-80477-4 |
GK82-B5 |