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Product Description: After the devastation of World War II, Japanese designers forged a new aesthetic that joined themes of destruction and rebirth with an appreciation for life and an awareness of the world around them. Twelve designers in particular stand out in this regard; this book is a tribute to them...read more
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9781931241083 | Graphis Inc, December 1, 2002, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: After the devastation of World War II, Japanese designers forged a new aesthetic that joined themes of destruction and rebirth with an appreciation for life and an awareness of the world around them.

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Product Description: On March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by the shockwaves of a 9.0 magnitude undersea earthquake originating less than 50 miles off its eastern coastline. The most powerful earthquake to have hit Japan in recorded history, it produced a devastating tsunami with waves reaching heights of over 130 feet that in turn caused an unprecedented multireactor meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant...read more
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9780801452000 | Cornell Univ Pr, April 2, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: On March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by the shockwaves of a 9.

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9781156739488 | General Books, August 20, 2010, cover price $11.39

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Product Description: 47 Ronin is the unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master, and faced certain death as a result. This set off a chain of events that led to one of the bloodiest episodes in Japanese history...read more
By John Allyn and Stephen Turnbull (foreword by)
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9784805312032 | Reprint edition (Tuttle Pub, September 10, 2012), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: 47 Ronin is the unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master, and faced certain death as a result.

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Product Description: World War II dominates world history today as it dominated world attention over 60 years ago. In spite of the alliances that bound many of the same participants, the war was essentially two separate but simultaneous conflicts: one involved Japan as the major antagonist and took place mostly in Asia and Pacific; and the other, initiated by Germany and Italy, was contested mainly in Europe, North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic...read more
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9780810868632 | Scarecrow Pr, September 30, 2009, cover price $34.45 | About this edition: World War II dominates world history today as it dominated world attention over 60 years ago.

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9780810870260 | Scarecrow Pr, September 15, 2009, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Although often overly romanticized, the American Revolution remains a pivotal period in the history of the United States of America.

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9781157679141 | General Books, November 24, 2010, cover price $8.06

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9780415864497 | Routledge, May 22, 2013, cover price $44.95

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9780203563410 | Routledge, November 20, 2003, cover price $195.00

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Product Description: In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century. This term, coined by the production designer Yoshino Nobutaka, refers to the perception that shadows add depth and mystery...read more
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9780822354079 | Duke Univ Pr, March 4, 2013, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century.

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9780822354222 | Duke Univ Pr, March 4, 2013, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century.

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9780824836665 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, July 31, 2013, cover price $42.00

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Product Description: Aikido Ground Fighting presents effective ground techniques that remain true to aikido founder Morehei Ueshiba's teachings while addressing a potential weakness in the system: while aikido is renowned for its submission and compliance techniques as well as grappling from a standing position, it is not known for its effectiveness when it comes to ground fighting...read more
By Carl Long (foreword by)
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9781583946060 | Random House Inc, May 14, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Aikido Ground Fighting presents effective ground techniques that remain true to aikido founder Morehei Ueshiba's teachings while addressing a potential weakness in the system: while aikido is renowned for its submission and compliance techniques as well as grappling from a standing position, it is not known for its effectiveness when it comes to ground fighting.

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9780824835125 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, October 31, 2011, cover price $58.00

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9781157210238 | General Books, August 20, 2010, cover price $7.74

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9781780935195 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 31, 2013, cover price $140.00

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Product Description: Chapters: Amago Tsunehisa, Amago Haruhisa, Amago Katsuhisa, Amago Yoshihisa, Amago Okihisa, Amago Kunihisa, Yamanaka Yukimori. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge...read more
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9781157286790 | General Books, July 26, 2010, cover price $7.58 | About this edition: Chapters: Amago Tsunehisa, Amago Haruhisa, Amago Katsuhisa, Amago Yoshihisa, Amago Okihisa, Amago Kunihisa, Yamanaka Yukimori.

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9781157765844 | General Books, August 20, 2010, cover price $11.80

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9781157226550 | General Books, August 20, 2010, cover price $8.47

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Product Description: American merchants established trading firms in the ports of Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki which operated from 1859-1899 until the repeal of the Unequal Treaties. Members of a privileged, semi-colonial community, the merchants formed the largest group of Americans in 19th century Japan...read more
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9780415868327, titled "The American Merchant Experience in Nineteenth Century Japan" | Routledge, May 22, 2013, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: American merchants established trading firms in the ports of Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki which operated from 1859-1899 until the repeal of the Unequal Treaties.

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Product Description: America’s Japan and Japan’s Performing Arts studies the images and myths that have shaped the reception of Japan-related theater, music, and dance in the United States since the 1950s. Soon after World War II, visits by Japanese performing artists to the United States emerged as a significant category of American cultural-exchange initiatives aimed at helping establish and build friendly ties with Japan...read more
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9780472118854 | Univ of Michigan Pr, April 15, 2013, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: America’s Japan and Japan’s Performing Arts studies the images and myths that have shaped the reception of Japan-related theater, music, and dance in the United States since the 1950s.

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Product Description: Mid-nineteenth century Russian radicals who witnessed the Meiji Restoration saw it as the most sweeping revolution in recent history and the impetus for future global progress. Acting outside imperial encounters, they initiated underground transnational networks with Japan...read more
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9780674073319 | Harvard Univ Council on East Asian, July 8, 2013, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Mid-nineteenth century Russian radicals who witnessed the Meiji Restoration saw it as the most sweeping revolution in recent history and the impetus for future global progress.

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9788121512305 | Munshirm Manoharlal Pub Pvt Ltd, February 23, 2012, cover price $79.50

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9780230117785 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 18, 2013, cover price $85.00

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Product Description: In this book Professor Nish deals with one of the most important aspects of far eastern politics in the critical period between 1894 and 1907. His object is to demonstrate how Britain and Japan, at first separately and later jointly, reacted to Russian encroachments in China and east Asia; he is concerned also with the policies of the other European powers and of the U...read more
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9781780939810 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 31, 2013, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: In this book Professor Nish deals with one of the most important aspects of far eastern politics in the critical period between 1894 and 1907.

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Product Description: Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World is the first English translation of a series of lectures Claude Lévi-Strauss delivered in Tokyo in 1986. Written with an eye toward the future as his own distinguished career was drawing to a close, this volume presents a synthesis of the author’s major ideas about structural anthropology, a field he helped establish...read more
By Jane Marie Todd (trans)
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9780674072909 | Italian edition edition (Belknap Pr, March 5, 2013), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World is the first English translation of a series of lectures Claude Lévi-Strauss delivered in Tokyo in 1986.

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9781780939544 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 31, 2013, cover price $140.00

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