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Heart
China Friendship Publishing Company · 2024
In my sophomore year of college, on a chance summer trip, I met a gentleman of considerable learning, and we had a most enjoyable conversation. Strang…
The Heart of Sōseki: Natsume Sōseki's Philosophy and Literature
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025
This book examines the historical context in which Natsume Sōseki lived, the philosophical and scientific ideas that shaped him, and the process by wh…
The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire (2 Volumes)
Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022
John Toland's Pulitzer Prize–winning代表作 The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire (日本帝国衰亡史) traces Japan's political decisions and military actions fro…
A Fool's Love
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026
“My feelings of love and hate for her are like a cat's eyes—they can change several times in a single night.” Twenty-eight-year-old Kawai Jōji takes i…
A Stirring History of a Century
Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2020
With concise and forceful prose, this book offers a sweeping, commanding historical perspective on the twists and turns Japan experienced over the hun…
The Constitutional Development of Japan 1853-1881
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Xinmin Shuo: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro Collected Works — Early Short Stories
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2024
This collection brings together the classic early works with which Tanizaki Jun'ichirō first entered the literary world and established his "diabolism…
From the End of the Tokugawa Shogunate to the Meiji Era: 1853-1890
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2018
Japan's modernization began in the Bakumatsu period. Triggered by Commodore Perry's arrival, which forced Japan to sign unequal treaties, it set off a…
Compromise and Confrontation: Japanese Intellectuals in Wartime and Defeat
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025
World War II may be over, yet wars break out somewhere on this planet every day. Japan's wartime era may have passed, but has the wartime mindset, as …
A Hundred Tales of Meiji Society
· 2025
This is a collection of essays that vividly portrays the social landscape of Meiji-era Japan. Through a rich array of themes—culture, performing arts,…
The Paradox of Takeuchi Yoshimi
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025
This is an intellectual biography of Takeuchi Yoshimi. For Takeuchi, China was not an external Other but an inner occasion for self-negation; on this …
The Door
Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2023
Gazing at others' happiness from afar, looking back on his own past, yet unwilling to admit that he was the one who first shut the door of his heart. …
I Am a Cat
Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2023
Natsume Sōseki's classic novel, ingeniously conceived and hailed as a landmark of Japanese critical realist literature, whose protagonist is a nameles…
Murderous Intent at the Pen Tip: A Mystery Collection by Japanese Literary Masters
Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023
Killing with the Pen: A Collection of Japanese Literary Masters' Detective Fiction is an anthology of short detective stories by twelve well-known Jap…
I Go, You Stay, Two Autumns: 400 Haiku by Masaoka Shiki
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2023
Masaoka Shiki was a major reformer of modern Japanese haiku, rivaling the "three greats" of Japanese haiku—Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Iss…
Seventy Years in My Hometown: The Autobiography of Kunio Yanagita
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2022
Yanagita Kunio is hailed as the “father of Japanese folklore.” A prolific author of wide-ranging interests, he made indelible contributions to the fou…
The Golden Death
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2022
The Golden Death is an early collection of representative short stories by Junichiro Tanizaki. It consists of two stories, "Killing Osen" and "The Gol…
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2022
An old man past seventy has lost his health and his capacity for sensual pleasure; confined to his sickbed, he projects his twisted desires onto his b…
Heart
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021
The Sensei took his own life, leaving behind a long suicide note. Learned, well-off, and happily married, the Sensei appeared to have a perfect life, …
Years of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2021
This study of Japan's transformation during the economic crisis of the 1930s focuses on efforts to overcome the effects of the Great Depression in rur…