東京日日新聞社. [Tokyo Nichinichi Shinbunsha]. [1939]. Colour folding illustrated map, charts, black and white photographic illustrations, some light browning on reverse. 55 x 79cm. Very good copy. The map of China and surrounding areas are richly illustrated with pictographs showing the resources and products of the countries of East Asia together..... More

日本オリンピック後援会. [Nihon Orinpikku Koenkai]. 昭和31[1956]. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, viii + 160pp, charts, hardback, dustjacket, 30.4 x 21.5cm, cardboard sleeve box and edges worn, very good copy. This book was published on June 1956 in Japan to mark the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia which were to..... More

Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. Reprint.2000. Fourth Edition, revised. Black and white illustrations, 383pp, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, a little light wear covers, a good paperback copy. "For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. This widely..... More

Berkeley. University of California Press. 1955. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xv + 324pp, index, notes, appendix, good hardback copy, spine a little sunned and marked, endpapers browned, a prior owner's details lower pastedown. "The description of village life presented in the following pages is not a delineation of..... More

London. Bantam. 2011. Black and white coloured plates, xvii + 300pp, index, bibliography, mark on dustjacket spine, still a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "This is the story of the real 'last samurai', Saigo Takamori. Born in 1827 in Japan's far south, Saigo's life was defined by the samurai..... More