Tokyo (東京): 清風書房. 1968. 120 mainly full page plates of which 48 are in colour and the rest in black and white, first three leaves creased, upper cover lifting a little, a good copy in original slightly worn pictorial slipcase. 26 x 37cm. Text in Japanese. A collection of illustrations..... More

Tokyo: 御茶の水書房. 2012. Black and white illustrations, 262pp, index, bibliography, a very good paperback copy. Text in Japanese. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 159751). More

Tokyo. 青木書店. 1984. Black and white photographic plates, 240pp, a good hardback copy in dustjacket, text in Japanese. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 154326). More

Ithaca. Cornell University Press. 1987. Map, 290pp, bibliography, index, light bump upper cover right-hand corners, a good paperback copy. The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Michael A. Barnhart tests this assumption by examining the events leading up..... More

London. Gollancz. 1942. 192pp, appendix, neat signature and date front free endpaper, evenly browned throughout. Errata slip tipped-in half title. Left Book Club edition bound in the characteristic red paper covered boards lettered in black. Minor wear extremities. 20th century Japanese political history and foreign policy traced through to Pearl..... More

London. Gollancz. 1942. 192pp, appendix, neat signature and date front free endpaper, evenly browned throughout. Errata slip tipped-in half title. Left Book Club edition bound in the characteristic red paper covered boards lettered in black. Minor wear extremities, name front free-endpaper. 20th century Japanese political history and foreign policy traced..... More

New York. Ticknor & Fields. 1992. Maps, including endpaper maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xvii + 622pp, bibliography, chronology, index, 4 lower leaves creased, minor damage to spine, worn dustjacket, still a sound copy. This work offers "a stunning account of the battle of Okinawa, the last major campaign..... More

London. Kegan Paul. 1991. xi + 322pp, notes, references, index, dustjacket spine little sunned, very good hardback copy. This study "clarifies the psychology and status of the Japanese people from 1931, when Japan's military expansion started, to 1945, when Japan was defeated in the Pacific war." Publisher's description. (When referring..... More

Tokyo: 内閣印刷局 [Naikaku Insatsukyoku / Cabinet Printing Office]. Showa 17 (1942). Maps, including a double page "cartoon style" pictorial map of Singapore, 23pp, original pictorial wrappers, some browning and staining but generally very good. This special Singapore issue of Shashin shūhō [Photography Weekly] 寫眞週報 (No.209), was issued on the 25th..... More

Tokyo: 内閣印刷局 [Naikaku Insatsukyoku / Cabinet Printing Office]. Showa 17. [1942]. Black and white photographic and line illustrations, 23pp, original coloured wrappers. 30 x 21cm. Some even browning throughout, a very good copy. This copy of Shashin shūhō [Photography Weekly] 寫眞週報 (No.250) was issued on December 9th, 1942, to celebrate..... More

Urbana. University of Illinois Press. (c.1973). 258pp, suggestions for further reading, dustjacket a little rubbed, now protected, a very good hardback copy. The Tandoran Journals of Charles Kikuchi, edited with an introduction by John Modell. Kikuchi was one of the American-born majority of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans who were..... More

東京. [Tokyo]. 都新聞社.[Miyako shinbunsha]. 昭和十七 (1942). Double sided newsheet, browned with a few small holes, folded. Good copy. 54 x 40.2cm. WWII Japanese newspaper, one sheet printed double side, issued by Miyako Shiinbunsha on January 18th 1942. Front page features latest military news including Japanese army's advances in Johore State..... More

New York. Viking Press. 1944. Foreword by Joseph C. Grew. xi + 203pp, index, endpapers browned, name front free endpaper, occasional pencilling throughout, binding out of shape, a sound copy. An interesting analysis of the Japanese Army and it's place in Japanese life by an American academic at Hokkaido Imperial..... More