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
New Zealand. Visual Education Media. 2012. A3 poster. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 140251). More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Japan. Tuttle Publishing. 2013. Children's reference book, hardback. A is for ari. A teeny weeny ant crawls with teeny weeny legs on the bamboo plant. Japanese is one of the most popular languages to learn in our multicultural society, and "My First Book of Japanese Words" introduces it in a.... More
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
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
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
United States: Tuttle Publishing, 2016. Black and white illustrations, 159pp, hardback in dustjacket. This samurai strategy books is the first widely available English translation of Yamamoto Kansuke's classic treatise on strategy and tactics. Secrets of the Japanese Art of Warfare is Thomas Cleary's translation of the seminal writings attributed to... More
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
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
Paris. Les Indes Savantes. 2004. Text in French. 145pp, bibliography, index, paperback. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 89896). More
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
Japan. Tuttle. 2010. Children's reference book, hardback. This book was carefully written for 9-13 year olds to allow them to learn Japanese independently, at their own speed, without an adult's help. Pages are in full colour with manga-style illustrations and speech bubbles. Suitability: Y4-Y7 (When referring to this item please... More
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
Norwalk. EastBridge. 2003. Fourth Edition. Map, xiii + 386pp, new paperback. "This classic account (1952) of the makers of 'New Japan' tells the life stories of a journalist, an ex-Navy vice-admiral, a steel worker, a farmer, and Emperor Hirohito. Frank Gibney was a wartime intelligence officer who became Time magazine... More
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
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
Singapore. Chuang Yi. 2006. Children's manga novel. As we dwell deeper into the quirky personalities of the Ouran boys, we find out that there is more nonsensical poppycock than meets the eye! Read on about what the Hitachin twins came up with just to trick Haruhi into letting them visit... More
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
