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Land of Plants in Motion is the first in any language to examine two companion stories: (1) the rise of an East Asian floristic zone in deep geological time, how the ancestors of many Japanese plants spread to eastern North America by 5 million years ago, and how the Japanese islands evolved an astonishing wealth of plant species since, and (2) the growth of Japanese botanical sciences, from focusing on herbal medicine and natural history in t...

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This volume portrays the daily life of ordinary Japanese civilians on the home front during World War Two. Drawing extensively on wartime records and early postwar recollections of people who lived through the war era, the book reveals a surprisingly cohesive society that bore up remarkably well. Originally published by W.W. Norton and Company in 1978.

Japan today protects one-seventh of its land surface in parks, which are visited by well over a billion people each year. This analyses the origins, development, and distinctive features of these public spaces.

Japanese have been fervid long-distance runners for many centuries. Marathon Japan is the first comprehensive English-language chronicle of the history of this important part of Japanese sports culture. It traces the development of distance racing beginning with the Stockholm Olympics of 1912, when the Japanese government used athletics as a means of winning the respect of Western countries and achieving parity with the world powers.

Discusses Japan's avant-garde artists, their work, and the historical environment in which they produced it during the two most creative decades of the twentieth century, the 1950s and 1960s. This work surveys censorship and arts policy during the American occupation of Japan (1945-1952).