New Zealand. Visual Education Media. 2011. A set of 5 posters featuring sentences in Japanese script and Romanji (e.g. Speaking Japanese is easy! Welcome to the Japanese Classroom) and a graphic. Nihongo de hanasu no wa yasashii desu yo! Maemuki ni ganbarimashoo! Koko dewa hihongo o hanshimasu! Doozo egao de... More about Japan Classroom Posters. Set of 5
New Zealand. Visual Education Media. 2012. A3 poster. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 140251). More about Japanese Classroom Poster. Individual
Japan. Kuroshio Shuppan. Black and white photographic illustrations, 105 pages, cd, paperback. For intermediate to advanced students, this 2010 release by acclaimed Uni QLD lecturer, Yuriko Nagata. Themes: Life & Work; Family; Marriage; Education; Language Matters; Youth & Society; Between Cultures and Community. Within each topic, students listen to various... More about Voices from Japan Text + CD
Australia. Curriculum Corporation. 1998. Teacher's resource book. The sources included in Hanabi are all texts from or about modern Japan. Some are by Japanese authors while others are by non-Japanese who have lived and worked in Japan. A variety of text types is included. The book is made up of... More about Hanabi. Sources from Japan for the Secondary English Classroom
Melbourne. Japanese Studies Centre. Monash University. 1996. 230 + 18pp, paperback, quarto. "This textbook was prepared to provide reading exercises for Japanese learners at the intermediate level. The reading passages, selected form Yoshio Sugimoto's Osutoraria 6000 Nichi (6000 days in Australia) deal with various aspects of Australia-Japan relations." From the... More about Reading Yoshio Sugimoto's '6000 days in Australia'
Melbourne. Trans Pacific Press. 2002. 234pp, notes, index, paperback. "This collection of essays links questions of social theory and comparative history to analyses of the Japanese experience. A survey of the East Asian region, its historical transformations and Japan's changing position within it provides a background to further discussion. The... More about The Peripheral Centre. Essays on Japanese History and Civilization
London. Kegan Paul. 1991. Maps, tables, figures, appendices, notes, references, index, xviii + 328pp.. Japanese Studies Series. An excellent copy in a dustjacket. This book provides a detailed ethnographic account of two modern suburban communities in Japan, an area that has had little attention in the literature. Most studies have... More about Changing Japanese Suburbia. A Study of Two Present-Day Localities
USA: Tuttle Publishing,US, 1996. Paperback , 228 x 152mm. In the late nineteenth century hundreds of Christian missionaries were despatched to Japan to convert the "heathen", a task that many felt could be accomplished within a few decades. That expectation proved to be wildly optimistic, since today fewer than one... More about Hannah Riddel.: An Englishwoman in Japan
Japan: Tuttle Shokai Inc, 2008. Hardback , 229 x 152mm. Japan's Showa era began in 1926 when Emperor Hirohito took the throne and ended on his death in 1989. The formative age of modern Japan, it was undoubtedly the most momentous, calamitous, successful and glamorous period in Japan's recent history... More about Showa Japan The Post-war Golden Age and Its Troubled Legacy
United Kingdom. Phaidon Press. 2009. Colour illustrations, 295 pages, quarto, paperback. "Manga Impact" consists of 350 single-page entries, arranged alphabetically, introducing the most important directors, producers, writers, animators and characters in manga and anime, from its origins to the present day. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, film stills, drawings, posters and... More about Manga Impact. The World of Japanese Animation
Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2018. Cartoon style colour illustrations throughout, 128pp, paperback. 25.5 x 19cm. Age range 10 - 18 Part fantasy, part travelogue, Onibi: Diary Of A Yokai Ghost Hunter follows the adventures of two foreign visitors as they tour Japan. When they buy an antique camera along the way... More about Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter
United States. University of Hawaii Press. 2010. viii + 199 pages, index, bibliography, notes, paperback. "The Other Women's Lib" provides the first systematic analysis of Japanese literary feminist discourse of the 1960s - a full decade before the 'women's lib' movement emerged in Japan. It highlights the work of three... More about Other Women's Lib. Gender and Body in Japanese Women's Fiction, 1960-1973
Folkestone. Global Oriental Ltd, 2007. xviii + 235pp, bibliography, index, dustjacket. Introduces the concepts of naturalization and naturalized modernity and uses them as tools for understanding the way modernity has been experienced and portrayed in Japanese literature since the end of the Second World War. Special emphasis is given to... More about Shock and Naturalization in Contemporary Japanese Literature
Australia. Black Inc., 2012. 265 pages, paperback. Blending the intimacy of memoir with an artist's vision, Toyo is the story of a remarkable woman, a vivid picture of Japan before and after war, and an unpredictable tale of courage and change in present-day Australia. Born into the traditional world of... More about Toyo. A Memoir
Folkestone. Global Oriental Ltd, 2004. 176pp. Hardback. Provides a suggestion that countries with socialized healthcare systems should be closely watching Japan as it attempts to balance social needs with economic viability. This book examines this critical certainty. It is for anyone whose work or interests are concerned with Japanese healthcare... More about The Japan Healthcare Debate Diverse Perspectives
Mansfield Center. Martino. (1997). Reprint. xii + 762pp, index. French text. First published in 1912. This important annotated bibliography contains listings of 3,500 works on Japan published in European languages through to the year 1870. The appendix also lists principal works published from 1870 to 1912. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 40931). More about Bibliotheca Japonica
Paris. Les Indes Savantes. 2004. Text in French. 145pp, bibliography, index, paperback. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 89896). More about Autour de Saikaku. Le roman en Chine et au Japon aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles
Mansfield Center. Martino. (2000). Black and white line illustrations, ix + 322pp, index. Originally published in Paris in 1900. Describes over 500 early Japanese books in the Bibliotheque Nationale, plus information on the history of engraving of Japanese books, and on individual artists. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 67828). More about Livres & Albums Illustres du Japon. Reunis et Catalogues
Australia. National Library of Australia. 2012. Colour photographic illustrations, 144 pages, index, square quarto, paperback. Stars of the Tokyo stage celebrates the glamour of kabuki theatre amid the dynamic atmosphere of Japan in the 1920s and 30s. Drawn from the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Natori Shunsens superb... More about Stars of the Tokyo Stage. Natori Shunsen's Kabuki Actor Prints
U.K. Dorling Kindersley. 2008. Maps, colour illustrations, 208pp, phrase index, index, paperback. This fascinating city; the world's largest metropolis, is becoming increasingly popular with and accessible to foreign visitors. Few people today are not affected by the creativity, culture and economy of Tokyo, yet this megacity remains an enigma for... More about Tokyo Eyewitness Travel
United States. Dover Publications. 2006. Colour illustrations, 128 pages, accompanying CD-ROM, paperback. Superb collection of authentic Japanese art and design reproduced directly from rare and costly sources includes birds, florals, animals, fish, crests, geometric designs, and patterns. An invaluable resource for professional and amateur artists and craftspeople. Over 260 color... More about Japanese Design
Folkestone. Global Oriental. 2007. 139pp, bibliography, index, dustjacket. Presents a study of Hasegawa Nyozekan (1895-1969), which examines his life and intellectual contributions as a pre-eminent liberal reformer through his role as a journalist and social critic, particularly in pre-war and wartime Japan. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 102515). More about Hasegawa Nyozekan and Liberalism in Modern Japan
Sydney. Hachette. 2008. Young adult novel, paperback. The powerful conclusion to the Tales of the Otori trilogy which transports us once again to an imagined medieval Japan, a land of formal ritual and codes, harsh beauty and deceptive appearance. The teenage lovers, Takeo and Kaede, are now married, but their... More about Brilliance of the Moon. Tales of the Otori. Book 3
Sydney. Hachette. 2008. Young adult novel, paperback. The second book in the extraordinary Tales of the Otori trilogy continues the epic story of Otori Takeo and Shirakawa Kaede, the young lovers whose fate is played out in an ancient Oriental world, where ritualised codes of high honour counter the cruelty... More about Grass for His Pillow. Tales of the Otori. Book 2
London. Abacus. 2016. Originally published in Japanese as Byakuyako. 539pp, paperback. A twenty-year-old murder A chain of unsolvable mysteries Can one detective solve this epic riddle? When a man is found murdered in an abandoned building in Osaka in 1973, unflappable detective Sasagaki is assigned to the case. He begins... More about Journey Under the Midnight Sun
