Category: Japan

By M F Hawkins; Profile Publications Ltd

By James Clavell

ISBN-10: 0440178002

ISBN-13: 9780440178002

A daring English adventurer. An invincible eastern warlord. a gorgeous lady torn among methods of existence, methods of affection. All introduced jointly in a unprecedented saga of a time and a spot aflame with clash, ardour, ambition, lust, and the fight for power...

"Superbly crafted...grips the reader like a riptide...gets the juices flowing!"—Washington Star

"Exciting, completely absorbing...be ready for past due nights, foodstuff unlasting, buisness unattended..."—Philadelphia Inquirer

"Adventure and motion, the suspense of probability, stunning, touching human relationships...a climactic human story." —Los Angeles Times

“A story surging with motion, intrigue and love...a large cast…vast and dramatic ...stunning…savage...beautiful...an notable performance.”
–Publishers Weekly

“I can’t be mindful while a unique has seized my brain like this one....It’s not just whatever you read–you stay it.” –New York occasions ebook assessment

By Christopher Alan Bayly, Tim Harper

ISBN-10: 0140293310

ISBN-13: 9780140293319

The colossal crescent of British-ruled territories from India all the way down to Singapore seemed within the early phases of the second one international struggle a major asset within the warfare with Germany, offering large amounts of infantrymen and uncooked fabrics and key a part of an impregnable international community denied to the Nazis. inside of a couple of weeks in 1941-2 a eastern invasion had destroyed all this, nearly easily taking the impregnable citadel' of Singapore with its 80,000 robust garrison, and sweeping via South and Southeast Asia to the frontier of India itself. This innovative, completely gripping e-book brings to lifestyles the complete adventure of South and Southeast Asia during this notable interval, telling the tale from an Indian, Burmese, chinese language or Malay standpoint up to from that of the British or jap. successfully it's the tale of the start of contemporary South and Southeast Asia and the hopes and fears of the handfuls of forgotten armies' marching throughout the jungle battlefields, such a lot of demise for explanations swept away through the truth that emerged in 1945. whilst the British effectively fought again within the bloodiest battles in South and Southeast Asia's heritage, there has been no going again to colonial rule.

By Mikael Adolphson, Edward Kamens, Stacie Matsumoto

The 1st 3 centuries of the Heian interval (794-1086) observed a few of its such a lot fertile thoughts and epochal achievements in jap literature and the humanities. It used to be additionally a time of vital transitions within the spheres of faith and politics, as aristocratic authority was once consolidated in Kyoto, strong court docket factions and non secular associations emerged, and changes have been made within the Chinese-style process of rulership. whilst, the era's leaders confronted severe demanding situations from the provinces that known as into query the primacy and potency of the governmental process and validated the social/cultural established order. "Heian Japan, facilities and Peripheries", the 1st ebook of its variety to envision the early Heian from a wide selection of multidisciplinary views, deals a clean examine those possible contradictory traits. Essays via fourteen best American, eu, and eastern students of paintings historical past, heritage, literature, and religions soak up center texts and iconic photos, cultural achievements and social crises, and the ever-fascinating styles and puzzles of the time. The authors take on a few of Heian Japan's so much enduring paradigms in addition to hitherto unexplored difficulties looking for new methods of knowing the currents of swap in addition to the strategies of institutionalization that formed the Heian scene, outlined the contours of its legacies, and make it some of the most intensely studied sessions of the japanese earlier.

By Yoshitaka Amano

ISBN-10: 4871883388

ISBN-13: 9784871883382

Amano Yoshitaka JAPAN ultimate delusion (in Japanese)

Concept paintings from ultimate delusion vi

By Jōji Watanuki

ISBN-10: 0860081907

ISBN-13: 9780860081906

The speedy social alterations that have been taking place in Japan over the last numerous many years have given the society tremendous new assets for capability social improvement. while, even though, the rapidity of social swap has led to contradictions and traces in each point ofJapanese society-strains comparable to these within the political area which have been illuminated by means of the 1976 disclosures of huge­ scale bribery of jap govt officers via the Lockheed airplane company. the japanese social textile has been well-known (or infamous) for being strongly pointed out with the prior. whilst a state is confronted with fast adjustments, this social continuity could be a resource of contradiction and pressure at the one hand, yet nonetheless it could actually develop the society's skill to take in switch and make the most of new resources.
This booklet is a set of essays written over a interval of approximately ten years. They variously describe the present-day eastern political procedure and its ancient history, discover styles of participation in the procedure, and talk about political attitudes towards and relationships with the countries of Asia and the remainder of the realm. Underlying these kind of essays is the typical subject matter of switch, with its concomitant traces and possibilities, and continuity in eastern politics and society.

ISBN-10: 041583533X

ISBN-13: 9780415835336

Nazi Germany and Japan occupied large parts at the least for a few interval in the course of global conflict II, and people territories grew to become indispensable elements in their warfare economies. The e-book specializes in the guidelines of worldwide struggle II aggressors in occupied countries.

The unbalanced monetary and fiscal relatives have been outlined by means of administrative keep watch over, the implementation of associations and various army exploitation ideas. Plundering, looting and requisitions have been common competitive acts, yet past those interventions by way of strength, particular associations have been created to achieve regulate over the occupied economies as a complete. a suitable institutional atmosphere used to be additionally the most important to provide incentives to the corporations within the occupied international locations to supply munitions for the aggressors. The ebook explains the most fields of battle exploitation (organisation and keep an eye on, battle financing and crew recruitment). It substantiates those features in case stories of occupied nations and offers examples of the company coverage of establishment businesses below struggle stipulations. The booklet additionally offers an account of alterations and similarities of the 2 profession systems.

Economies lower than career will curiosity researchers specialising within the background of financial proposal in addition to in financial concept and philosophy. it's going to additionally have interaction readers all in favour of nearby ecu and eastern reports and imperial histories.

By Katja Gawlik

ISBN-10: 3322816710

ISBN-13: 9783322816719

ISBN-10: 3824480131

ISBN-13: 9783824480135

Die Nutzung weltweiter Beschaffungsmärkte stellt nicht nur Einkäufer, sondern auch Lieferanten vor immer komplexere Herausforderungen. Dies gilt vor allem, wenn die Verhandlungspartner aus sehr unterschiedlichen Kulturräumen kommen.

Auf der foundation empirisch gewonnener Erkenntnisse im Anlagengeschäft, insbesondere in der chemisch-pharmazeutischen Industrie, zeigt Katja Gawlik kulturspezifische Besonderheiten im Verhandlungsverhalten chinesischer, japanischer und deutscher Geschäftspartner auf. Es wird deutlich, dass die größten Unterschiede hinsichtlich Verhandlungsdauer, Kontaktanbahnung, Beziehungsaufbau, Kommunikations- und Informationsverhalten und nachvertraglicher Beziehungspflege bestehen. Die Autorin leitet praktisch-normative Handlungsempfehlungen ab, mit deren Hilfe Akzeptanz- und Verständnisprobleme bei interkulturellen Verhandlungen mit chinesischen und japanischen Partnern vermieden und Kommunikationsbarrieren präventiv abgebaut werden können.

By George Weller

ISBN-10: 0307342026

ISBN-13: 9780307342027

Misplaced for greater than part a century, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist George Weller’s mythical dispatches from post-atomic-bomb Nagasaki have been stumbled on after his dying by means of his son, Anthony Weller. right here, this historical physique of labor is released for the 1st time.

By Fuminori Nakamura

ISBN-10: 1616955910

ISBN-13: 9781616955915

In Tokyo a faculty student's discovery and eventual obsession with a stolen handgun awakens anything darkish inside of him and threatens to devour not just his lifestyles but in addition his humanity. Nakamura's jap debut is a noir-spun story that probes the violence inherent to aesthetics.

On a evening stroll alongside a Tokyo riverbank, a tender guy named Nishikawa stumbles on a lifeless physique, beside which lies a gun. From the instant Nishikawa makes a decision to take the gun, the area round him blurs. realizing he possesses the weapon brings an intoxicating experience of objective to his uninteresting collage life.

But quickly Nishikawa's own entanglements turn into unexpectedly advanced: he unearths himself romantically concerned with girls whereas his organic father, whom he's by no means met, lies demise in a health facility. via all of it, he can't cease considering the gun--and the 4 bullets loaded in its chamber. As he spirals into obsession, his concentration is fed on through one proposal: that owning the gun isn't any longer enough--he needs to fireplace it.