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

Tokyo. 大和書房, 1976. Black and white plate, 294pp, a good harcback copy, text in Japanese. When referring to this item please quote stockid 154319. 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...... 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

Tokyo. Kodansha. 1987. 204pp, dustjacket trifle shelf worn, little sunned spine, a good hardback copy. This extraordinary collection of individual portraits is perhaps the first book about the Japanese to view them entirely unhindered by the various theories about them - people as complicated, as simple, as inscrutable, and as..... More

Berkeley. University of California Press. 1969. Black and white line illustrations, xvii + 187pp, chronology, neat name of a prior owner front free endpaper, remainder mark lower edge, good clean hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173895. More

Tokyo. Kodansha International. 2007. 187pp, small closed tear upper corner of dustjacket, a very good hardback copy. A shocking yet intensely moving first-person account of one woman's experience of growing up in Japan's yakuza society. Born into the family of a wealthy yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lives her early years..... More

Tokyo. Kodansha International. 1992. Black and white photographic plates, xi + 256pp, hardback, very good in dustjacket. Translated by Edwin McClellan. A memoir by the author of such well-known works as Musashi and Taiko. "Fragments of a Past provides an absorbing account of a boy's struggle toward maturity; a striking..... More

Tokyo. Keiōgijuku. 2009. Colour and black and white illustrations, 424pp, selected bibliography, chronology, lower edge upper cover and corners bumped, some very minor water damage lower cover and paper band but otherwise a very good hardback copy. 28.5 x 22cm. "Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901) [Tenpo 5 - Meiji 34] was a...... 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