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Japan's colonization of Korea discourse and power / by Dudden, Alexis, 1969-

Subjects: “…Law Japan History.…”
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Imperial politics and symbolics in ancient Japan the Tenmu dynasty, 650-800 / by Ooms, Herman

Subjects: “…Tenmu, Emperor of Japan, 631?-686.…”
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Japan to 1600 a social and economic history / by Farris, William Wayne

“…Japan Social conditions To 1600.…”
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The spectacle of Japanese American trauma racial performativity and World War II / by Roxworthy, Emily

Subjects: “…Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.…”
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Death and the afterlife in Japanese Buddhism

Table of Contents: “…Mukaekō : practice for the deathbed / Sarah Johanna Horton -- With the help of "good friends" : deathbed ritual practices in early medieval Japan / Jacqueline I. Stone -- Beyond death and the afterlife : considering relic veneration in medieval Japan / Brian O. …”
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Japanese temple Buddhism worldliness in a religion of renunciation / by Covell, Stephen Grover, 1965-

Subjects: “…Buddhism Japan History 1945-…”
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Reading food in modern Japanese literature by Aoyama, Tomoko

Table of Contents: “…Food in the diary -- Down-to-Earth eating and writing (1) -- Down-to-Earth eating and writing (2) -- Cannibalism in modern Japanese literature -- The gastronomic novels -- Food and gender in contemporary women's literature -- Confession of obsessive textual food eater.…”
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Popular literacy in early modern Japan by Rubinger, Richard, 1943-

Subjects: “…Literacy Japan History.…”
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A poetics of courtly male friendship in Heian Japan by Schalow, Paul Gordon

Subjects: “…Japanese literature Heian period, 794-1185 History and criticism.…”
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A Japanese Robinson Crusoe by Oyabe, Zenʼichirō

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Himiko and Japan's elusive chiefdom of Yamatai archaeology, history, and mythology / by Kidder, J. Edward (Jonathan Edward)

Table of Contents: “…Ancient texts and sources -- The Wei zhi and the Wa people -- The initial problem and three centuries of compounding it -- Travel by land and water to neighboring countries -- Han commanderies, Korean kingdoms, and Wei China -- Japan in transition from Yayoi to Kofun -- The Izumo-Yamato contention -- Himiko, shamans, divination, and other magic -- Mirrors and Himiko's allotment -- The Japanese view of the Wei zhi years -- The endless search for Yamatai -- Makimuku and the location of Yamatai.…”
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Faith and power in Japanese Buddhist art, 1600-2005 by Graham, Patricia Jane

Table of Contents: “…Buddhism in the arts of early modern Japan, 1600-1868 -- Institutional Buddhism under warrior rule -- Buddhist temples for the elites -- Temples for commoners -- Depictions of popular deities and spiritual concerns -- Professional icon-makers -- Expressions of faith -- Buddhist imagery and sacred sites in modern Japan, 1868-2005 -- Buddhist institutions after an era of persecution, 1868-1945 -- From icon to art, 1868-1945 -- Buddhist sites of worship, 1945-2005 -- Visualizing faith, 1945-2005.…”
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Hawaiʻi at the crossroads of the U.S. and Japan before the Pacific War

Subjects: “…Japanese Hawaii History 20th century Congresses.…”
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Japan and the League of Nations Empire and world order, 1914-1938 / by Burkman, Thomas W.

Table of Contents: “…The World War I experience -- The idea of a league -- The great debate -- Making the covenant palatable at Paris -- The Geneva years -- The Japanese face at Geneva: Nitobe Inazō and Ishii Kikujirō -- Crisis over Manchuria -- Japan as an outsider -- Epliogue: internationalism and international organization in interwar Japan.…”
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Heian Japan, centers and peripheries

Table of Contents: “…Cameron Hurst III - Part II: Shifting categories in literature and the arts -- The way of the literati: Chinese learning and literary practice in mid-Heian Japan / Ivo Smits -- Terrains of text in mid-Heian court culture / Edward Kamens -- The Buddhist transformation of Japan in the ninth century: the case of Eleven-Headed Kannon / Samuel C. …”
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Edwin O. Reischauer and the American discovery of Japan / by Packard, George R.

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To the ends of Japan premodern frontiers, boundaries, and interactions / by Batten, Bruce Loyd

“…Japan History.…”
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Japanese sports a history / by Guttmann, Allen

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Sporting Practices Before the Black Ships -- 1 Sum6, Ball Games, and Feats of Strength -- 2 Martial Techniques -- Part II Modern Times -- 3 The Arrival and Diffusion of Western Sports -- 4 The Modernization of Indigenous Sports -- 5 Japan at the Olympics: 1912-1940 -- 6 From Taisho Democracy to Japanese Fascism -- Part III Postwar Sports -- 7 Rising from the Ashes -- 8 Japan at the Olympics: 1952-1998 -- 9 New Directions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Plates follow page 150.…”
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Japan society & culture /

Subjects: “…Women Japan.…”
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Japan communications /

Subjects: “…Communication Japan.…”
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