Louis Allen’s work on Japan dominated his prodigious output as a scholar, researcher and writer and received great attention internationally. This collection focuses on Japan and the Pacific War, the
Vovin (East Asian languages, U. of Hawai'i-Manoa) continues his new English translation of the earliest and largest Japanese poetic anthology, dating to 759 AD. He explains that it is also the most im
The international scholars who contributed to this book primarily address what it means strategically to be an island nation. Focusing on the history of Japan and the UK since an initial alliance in 1
This is the first in-depth study in English to examine the warrior and shamanic characteristics and significance of tengu in the martial art culture (bugei) of Muromachi Japan (1336-1573).
Japanese anime plays a major role in modern popular visual culture and aesthetics, yet this is the first study which sets out to put today’s anime in historical context by tracking the visual links be
This volume comprises 70 essays by private individuals living in Japan (members of a writing club) who have chosen a subject to write about with a view to projecting a genuine insight into the events,
The English-language newspapers of Japan, and Korea occupied a narrow but significant segment of the public sphere in East Asia in the inter-war years. As forums of opinion on Japanese, Chinese, Korea
The author examines the growth and development of Japan’s modern shipping and shipbuilding industries across a wide range of topics, through the pre-war, Pacific War and post-war periods, to the trans
Here is a well-informed, concise introduction to the culture and history of the vast territory of Kazakhstan, equivalent to the size of Western Europe, located at the centre of geographical Eurasia.
Many questions and issues related to the Russo-Japanese War remain unsolved, or call for a reexamination. This volume, the first of two, provides a comprehensive reexamination of the origins of the co
This volume brings together a set of original essays by Japanese, Korean and Chinese scholars, together with analyses by Russian, US and European specialists, thereby reflecting the multinational mix
The Japanese say that ‘folk song is the heart’s home town’. Traditional folk songs (min’yo) from the countryside are strongly linked to their places of origin and continue to play a role there. Today,
This volume explores four key themes emanating from Okakura Tenshin’s philosophy and legacy: Okakura Tenshin and the ideal of Pan-Asianism; other forms of Pan-Asianism; art and Asia, and ways of defin
First published in Boston in 1881 and rarely available today, Japanese Episodes reveals House as a writer, commentator and observer of things Japanese at his best and was to inspire Lafcadio Hearn in
Sakishima comprises a group of islands situated between Okinawa and Taiwan, forming a culturally important bridge between Japan and Taiwan. Studies of the languages of the Ryukyuan islands are valuabl
This book contains the critical publication of two recently discovered epigraphic documents in the Khitan Small Script. Khitan was a Para-Mongolic language once spoken in southern Manchuria but extin
Chiang Kai-Shek (1887-1975), head of the Chinese Nationalist Party and the self-appointed President of the Republic of China on Taiwan until his death, wrote his two books of political and economic th
Carmen Blacker’s spirited translation of Santo Kyoden’s Mukashi-banashi inazuma byooshi reveals a multi-layered and fascinating tale of revenge, providing a classic example of this popular genre withi
The Tragedy of Korea could be seen to be both timely and relevant. First published in 1908 after some ten years’ occupation of Korea by Japan (formal annexation as part of the Japanese empire announce
