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The Doppelgänger: A New Theory of Japan
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2020
This book is a new account of modern Japan by the Chinese scholar Li Yongjing. The author treats modern Japan as a mirror held up to China and as a "d…
M Translation Series Bundle 06: Why Is Japan Japan? (2-Book Set)
Sichuan People's Publishing House, Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2018
This is the sixth thematic bundle in Imaginist's "M Translation Series," collecting two works on Japan by the Dutch writer and cultural critic Ian Bur…
Wrongful Arrest
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2024
Postwar Japan was chaotic and disordered, yet it was also a time brimming with a free and open spirit—an era in which journalists could become stars, …
Tales of a Rainy Night: The Autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2022
This book is the autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi, known as "the father of modern Japanese business." Set against the turbulent backdrop of the late …
Soseki's Diary
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020
Natsume Sōseki's Sōseki Nikki is finally available. It covers several of the most important junctures in Sōseki's life, recording his unreserved thoug…
Literary Methodology
· 2026
This is a collection of essays on Japanese literary theory written between the Taisho and early Showa eras. Grounded in historical materialism, the au…
The Constitution of the Empire of Japan, 1889
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 …
Toward Defeat: A Study of Post-World War I Japan's National Policy 'Turn' and Misjudgments in Foreign Strategy, Volume II: The Origins of the National Policy 'Turn' (1918–1931)
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2026
With its participation in World War I, Japan successfully transformed from a huge debtor nation before the war into a huge creditor nation after the w…
Toward Defeat: A Study of Post-World War I Japan's National Policy 'Turn' and Misjudgments in Foreign Strategy, Volume I: General Introduction
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2026
After the end of World War I, as internal and external contradictions intensified, the Japanese Empire reached a crossroads where it had to choose ane…
Toward Defeat: A Study of Post-World War I Japan's National Policy 'Turn' and Misjudgments in Foreign Strategy, Volume III: The Launch of the National Policy 'Turn' (1931–1937)
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2026
After the Mukden Incident, Japan propped up the puppet state of Manchukuo and withdrew from the League of Nations. Domestically, a fascist frenzy aros…
Toward Defeat: A Study of Post-World War I Japan's National Policy 'Turn' and Misjudgments in Foreign Strategy, Volume IV: The Dead End of the National Policy 'Turn' (1937–1945)
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2026
A nation's strategic judgments and choices often determine the course of its fate. Drawing on primary sources including the records of the Liaison Con…
A Riot of Goldfish
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing Ltd. · 2026
In 1889, Okamoto Kanoko was born into an extremely wealthy family in Tokyo, and married and had a child in her early twenties. It was not until she tu…
全面抗战前国人对日本的观察
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2026
Since Japan's rise in the modern era, the question of choosing a path for national development has accompanied it throughout. After the outbreak of th…
Prewar Japanese History Textbooks and the War of Aggression Against China
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2026
Since the Meiji Restoration, how have Japanese history textbooks shaped the historical consciousness of the Japanese people? Why did the prewar Japane…
An Account of the Japanese Constitution
· 2025
Scholars differ in their definitions of a constitution. Yet though the wording varies from person to person, the meaning is not far apart. Definitions…
An Account of Japanese Administrative Law
· 2025
The political affairs of a state fall broadly into two categories: the making of law and the execution of law. If the enactment of laws and ordinances…
The Science of State Law
· 2025
There are many branches of jurisprudence, but national jurisprudence concerns only the laws governing the relations of the organization and the exerci…
Collected Novels of Natsume Soseki
Volumes Publishing Company · 2025
Among Natsume Sōseki's works, Botchan and Kokoro stand out as highly distinctive representatives, corresponding respectively to the two creative perio…
Japan's Foreign Negotiations After World War I: From the Paris Peace Conference to the Washington Conference
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2023
This book combines empirical research with documentary analysis, guided by a global-history perspective and covering the period from the end of World …
A Study of Japan's "Reviving Asia" Discourse
· 2023
In modern Japan there were two representative strands of thought on Eastern and Western civilizations: the "leave Asia" thesis and the "rejuvenate Asi…