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. 三一書房. 1981. 246pp, dustjacket spine little faded, a very good hardback copy. Text in Japanese. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 148882). 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

東京. [Tokyo]. 幻冬舎. [Gentosha]. 2001. Black and white manga illustrations, 537pp, bibliography, paperback, dustjacket with title band, 21 x 15cm, Japanese text, very good copy. Kobayashi Yoshinori, a controversial right wing cartooninst, expresses his views on the Pacific War, Yasukuni Shrine and the post-WW2 historiography in Japan. (When referring to..... More

Sydney. Angus & Robertson. 1st Australian ed.1944. Endpaper map, illustrations, 217pp, signature dedications page, some browning throughout, covers worn. Personal account of air raid on Tokyo. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 9960). More

New York. Bantam. 1989. Bantam Ed. Black and white photographic illustrations, xxii + 263pp, appendices, index, worn paperback, remainder mark lower edge. "With detailed eyewitness accounts, previously undisclosed archives, minutes, and excerpts from the diaries of the emperor's closest aides, veteran reporter and war correspondent Paul Manning unfolds a stunning..... More

Sydney. Angus and Robertson Ltd., 1943. 79pp, edges browned, occasional spotting and some even browning throughout, wrappers foxed and soiled, 12mo, a sound paperback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 153567). More