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First published in translation from the Japanese in 1952, and long out of print, Colonel Tsuji's account of his escape into Thailand from the Japanese surrender in Bangkok in 1945, and then finding his way into China before returning to Japan in 1948, is a remarkable story, which has its place in the military history of the period

To what extent is Japan in decline? Recent views are that the rise of Japan is long since over and that the world's second largest economy is not just treading water but that society and the economy are failing, with potential catastrophic outcomes. But is this really the case? Could it be that once again Japan is being misread and misinterpreted?

This dictionary of the Ainu language is highly eclectic: it contains not only words from Sakhalin dialects collected personally by Dobrotvorskii, but also entries from other sources, such as the Japanese-Ainu dictionary Moshiogusa (1793).

Book based on papers of Kichisaburo Nomura - Japanese admiral, foreign minister, ambassador to the U.S., "spiritual godfather" of postwar Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force. It is revealing, providing insights into domestic conditions in occupied Japan, U.S. policies toward Japan, the Cold War in Asia, and Japan's eventual rearmament.

Following the opening of Japan's ports in 1859, Nagasaki rapidly became one of Japan's leading industrial centres, which included shipbuilding. It has been largely overshadowed by interest in the Meiji settlements of Kobe and Yokohama. Fully illustrated, the value of the work is reinforced by additional key data to be found in the appendices.

Widely known for her writings on Islam with a particular focus on Turkey and Japan, this volume brings together twenty of the author's key essays thematically structured as Japan and Islam, Japanese Ottoman Relations and Japanese-Turkish Interaction, and Reflections on Tokugawa Japan from Turkey.

This volume of leading figures in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations offers a classic menu of personalities, themes and events. Subects treated include horse breeding and horse-racing, the Japanese influence on British architects, the beginnings of golf in Japan and Japanese gardeners in Britain.

Japanese anime plays a major role in modern popular visual culture and aesthetics, yet this is the first study which sets out to put today's anime in historical context by tracking the visual links between Edo- and Meiji- period painters and the post-war period animation and manga series 'Gegegeno Kitaro' by Mizuki Shigeru.

This is the first translation into English of the eighteenth-century Korean masterpiece entitled Yorha ilgi ('The Jehol Diary') by Pak Chiwon (1737-1805). The original text was written in classical Chinese and is a notoriously difficult work to translate. Contents: Crossing the Yalu River, Tales from Shenjing and Gateways and Garrisons.

Explores shifting political rationales and cultural practices in Trindu. 1980s social and economic 'reform and opening up' in China involved limited devolution of power, localization of fiscal responsibilities, relaxation of many prohibitions. Much of society had undergone far-reaching alterations through upheavals of Maoist revolutionary era.

New insights into the controversial lives of Prince and Princess Chichibu - two high-profile members of the Japanese imperial family. Their lives were lived both above and below 'the clouds', with the princess a commoner in an arranged marriage and the popular 'sporting prince' dogged by ill health and his association with the Imperial Army.

This classic survey (in its much revised edition of 1883) of the geography, government, literature, social life, arts and history of the Chinese Empire and its inhabitants remains a valuable source of reference to scholars of the nineteenth century.

Ki, or inner energy, has been a propelling force in Japanese culture, religion and martial arts for centuries. The 1980s and 1990s were notable for increasing interest in Ki in self-fulfilment. The book includes pictures of ki's healing powers as well as ki in action in Aikido.