United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 1987. 260pp, notes, bibliography, index, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason on front free endpaper, spine of dustjacket faded, good hardback copy. The book traces the career of a man who was a minister and prime minister in Japan, serving the Emperor and..... More

Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1973. Black and white illustrations, x + 535pp, appendix, bibliography, glossary, index, name front free endpaper, binding worn & skewed, a good copy otherwise. Mori Arinori was the Japanese minister of education and was assassinated in 1889. This biography discusses his role in the modernisation of..... More

Tokyo. Kajima Institute. 1963. Black and white and colour photographic illustrations, xiii + 206pp, very good copy in dustjacket. Mrs Kajima was president of the large civil engineering and construction firm, Kajima Construction Company. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 9064). More

New York. Kodansha International. 1994. [Reprint]. Black and white photographic illustrations, 292pp, index, very good paperback copy. "The moving memoir by revered Japan scholar Donald Keene" - Publisher's description. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 170286). More

New Haven . Yale University Press. 1989. [Reprint]. 192pp, index, bibliography, notes, paperback, corners lightly bumped, very good. Daughter of a merchant family in nineteenth-century Japan and wife of a distinguished scholar-doctor of the samurai class, Shibue Io was a woman remarkable in her own right for her exceptionally keen..... More

Tokyo. Tokyo Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha. (1938). Black and white illustrations, xix + iii + iiviii + 399pp, index, signature of prior owner title page, pale foxing first and last leaves and edges, minor ink numbering front free endpaper, light wear and marking covers, dulled gilt lettering spine, still a sound..... More

Tokyo: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture. 2018. First English edition. Black and white photographic illustrations, 339pp., bibliography, appendix. A very good hardback copy in a dust jacket. "Towards the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, Mutsu Munemitsu was ousted frim his home Kishu-han as a result of his father's defeat..... More

New Jersey. Princeton University Press. 1980. Black and white photographic illustrations, viii + 453pp notes, bibliography, index, dustjacket rubbed particularly along extremities, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason on front free endpaper, a very clean hardback copy. "The author draws on a considerable amount of rarely used materials, relating..... More

Kent. Norbury. 1977. Black and white illustrations, xviii + 231pp, bibliography, signature of Japanese historian Dr.Richard Mason on front free endpaper, dustjacket minor rubbing, a very good copy. "[Kenneth Strong] uses contemporary sources and his subject's personal diaries to present an overall account of the way an intricate network of..... More

London. Faber and Faber. 1974. 280pp, glossary, index, endpapers little browned, dustjacket spine lightly faded and edges lightly worn, a good hardback copy. The author was the head of the British Council in Japan for 6 years from 1961. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 148844). More

Tokyo. 中央公論新社, 1971. Black and white illustrations, 211pp, text in japanese, a good paperback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 154318). More

Japan. 講談社. 1970. Black and white plates, 344pp, a good hardback copy in card slipcase. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 154354). More