Tokyo. Asahi Shimbun. 1975. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, unpaginated, chronology, paperback. Stitching weakening causing contents to loosen in binding but otherwise sound. Quarto. Text in Japanese. A fascinating view of national and international news as seen through selected photographs from the pages of the Asahi Shinbun in..... More
New York. Harper & Brothers. 1957. xxii + 327pp, endpapers little stained, pencilled annotations throughout, binding little worn, spine bumped, priceclipped dustjacket worn and chipped. A series of essays from a post-occupation American perspective. "Although our six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan was a 'good occupation' -- helfpful, just and friendly, yet..... More
Inter Group. 2003. Folding map and chart, ix + 538pp, very good paperback copy. Originally published by Japan Defense Agency in August 2003, this edition translated into English by Inter Group Corporation. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 136614). More
Folding chart and map, black and white photographic illustrations, 607pp, very good copy in paperback. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 136615). More
London. BBC. 1990. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, x + 278pp, bibliography, index, neat name of prior owner front free endpaper, very good in shelfworn dustjacket with bumping to tail of spine. "Nippon: New Superpower, which accompanies the 8-part BBC TV series Nippon, tells the most dramatic economic success..... More
United States: Japan Policy Research Institute, 1999. 310pp, a very good paperback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 150217). More
United States. Harvard University Press. 2019. 12 photos, vii + 358pp, index, notes, abbrieviations, very good hardback copy. A fresh reappraisal of Japan's relationship with the United States, which reveals how the Cold War shaped Japan and transformed America's understanding of what it takes to establish a postwar democracy. Is..... More
Washington. Brookings Institution. 1944. xi + 116pp, index, worn wrappers, a good copy. Discussion of the problems the victors would face at the end of the Second World War in preventing Germany and Japan from re-arming. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 12189). More
Tokyo. Japan Overseas Publicity Association. 1955. Numerous black and white photographic illustrations, ads + 152pp + ads, wrappers worn with damaged spine. An interesting insight into Japanese life in the 1950s, providing glimpses into the Japanese seasons, arts, sports and industries, as well as sightseeing ideas for tourists. (When referring..... More
New York. Oxford University Press. 1995. 414pp, notes, bibliography, index, very good paperback copy. "The author discusses Japanese economic history from before the Meiji Restoration to the present, and looks at Japanese politics, state-corporate relations, the labor relations system in Japan and the nature of work as experienced by Japanese..... More
(Tokyo). (The Imperial Hotel). (c.1970). Black and white photographic illustrations, 80pp, printed on folded leaves, four hole stab binding,string ties, very good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 153660). More
New York. Norton. 1963. Endpaper maps, 256pp, appendix, index, bibliography, notes, a third of the upper dustjacket cover torn with loss, otherwise a good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 157622). More
London. Royal Inst. of International Affairs. 1948. viii + 223pp, glossary, index, neat name of prior owner front free endpaper, edges foxed, dustjacket browned, worn and torn with some loss at extremities, now protected. A sequel to the Chatham House Study Group Report "Japan in Defeat." "In the first part..... More
United States. Harvard University, Asia Center. 2009. Black and white illustrations, 4 maps, 3 tables, 238pp, index, slight rubbing extremities, very good paperback copy. Following the end of World War II in Asia, the Allied powers repatriated more than six million Japanese nationals from colonies and battlefields throughout Asia and..... More
