By Ryu Murakami

ISBN-10: 0393338428

ISBN-13: 9780393338423

From the writer of Audition, a wickedly satirical and wildly humorous story of an intergenerational conflict of the sexes.
In his such a lot irreverent novel but, Ryu Murakami creates a contention of epic proportions among six aimless youths and 6 tough-as-nails girls who conflict for keep an eye on of a Tokyo local. on the outset, the younger males appear louche yet risk free, their actions restricted to ingesting, snacking, peering at a unadorned neighbor via a window, and acting karaoke. The six "aunties" are fiercely autonomous occupation girls. whilst one of many boys executes a deadly ambush of 1 of the ladies, chaos ensues. the ladies band jointly to discover the killer and particular revenge. In flip, the lads buckle down, research physics, and plot to take out their nemeses in one blast. Who knew lethal "gang war" may be such enjoyable? Murakami builds the clash right into a hilarious, spot-on satire of contemporary tradition and the tensions among the sexes and generations.

By Kazuo Yagami

ISBN-10: 0786422424

ISBN-13: 9780786422425

The blame for a country’s error frequently falls on its leaders. on occasion, in spite of the fact that, a leader’s maximum mistake is to advertise the unsuitable targets of his humans. used to be this the case in international struggle II Japan? This booklet considers that question within the tale of Konoe Fumimaro, who served as Japan’s best minister in the course of the most tough classes of the country’s heritage. This ancient biography is a balanced account of Konoe and his provider as best minister ahead of and through global battle II. Governing from 1937 to 1941, Konoe performed a key function within the fight to enhance eastern international coverage. starting with Konoe’s schooling and political education, the writer then explores the overall temper of Thirties Japan and lines Konoe’s upward push in the course of the political ranks, together with his first time period as top minister, his choice to step down, and his eventual comeback. particularly emphasised is how the guy himself affected this era of eastern background. In his relentless paintings relating to Japanese-American international relations, he tried to alter the damaging path on which Japan used to be bent. Defeated in essence by way of his personal army and its becoming autonomy, Konoe however took the japanese defeat to middle. the ultimate bankruptcy examines Konoe’s conflict event and its aftermath, which culminated in his suicide.

By David Wolff, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Bruce W. Menning, John W. Steinberg, Shinji Yokote

ISBN-10: 9004142843

ISBN-13: 9789004142848

This quantity examines the Russo-Japanese warfare in its army, diplomatic, social, political, fiscal, and cultural context. by utilizing examine from newly opened Russian and little used eastern resources the editors assert that the Russo-Japanese battle was once, in reality, global battle 0, the 1st international clash within the twentieth century. The participants exhibit that the Russo-Japanese battle, mostly forgotten within the aftermath of global battle One, truly was once a precursor to the disaster that engulfed the realm below a decade after the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth. This examine not just additional finds the weaknesses of Imperial Russia but in addition shows Japan because it entered its fateful twentieth century. participants: Oleg Rudolfovich Airapetov; Boris Vasilevich Ananich; Michael Auslin; Paul A. Bushkovitch; John Bushnell; Frederick R. Dickinson; Tatiana Aleksandrovna Filippova; David Goldfrank; Antti Kujala; Dominic Lieven; Igor Vladimirovich Lukoianov; Pertti Luntinen; Steven Marks; Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka; David Maclaren Mcdonald; Bruce W. Menning; Edward S. Miller; Ian Nish; Dmitrii Ivanovich Oleinikov; Nicholas Papastratigakis; Paul A. Rodell; Norman E. Saul; Charles Schencking; Barry Scherr; David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye; Evgenii Iurevich Sergeev; Naoko Shimazu; Yokote Shinji; John W. Steinberg; Richard Stites; James T. Ulak; David Wolff; Don Wright.

By Ian Jared Miller

ISBN-10: 0520271866

ISBN-13: 9780520271869

It really is well known that such Western associations because the museum, the college, and the reformatory formed Japan’s emergence as a contemporary countryside. much less typically famous is the function performed by way of the pretty hybrid institution—at as soon as museum, laboratory, and prison—of the zoological backyard. during this eye-opening examine of Japan’s first glossy zoo, Tokyo’s Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller bargains a refreshingly unconventional narrative of Japan’s swift modernization and altering dating with the wildlife. because the first zoological backyard on the earth no longer outfitted lower than the sway of a Western imperial regime, the Ueno Zoo served not just as a staple appeal within the nation’s capital—an institutional marker of nationwide accomplishment—but additionally as a website for the propagation of a brand new “natural” order that used to be scientifically verifiable and evolutionarily foreordained. because the jap empire grew, Ueno grew to become one of many basic websites of imperialist spectacle, a microcosm of the empire which may be traveled during a unmarried day. The which means of the zoo may switch over the process Imperial Japan’s unraveling and next Allied career. at the present time it is still considered one of Japan’s most often visited locations. yet rather than empire in its vintage political feel, it now bespeaks the ambivalent dominion of the human species over the traditional surroundings, harkening again to its imperial roots whilst it asks us to question our exploitation of the planet’s assets.

By Conrad Totman

ISBN-10: 0520203569

ISBN-13: 9780520203563

This thoughtfully equipped survey of Japan's early sleek interval (1568-1868) is a outstanding mix of political, financial, highbrow, literary, and cultural heritage. the single really entire research in English of the Tokugawa interval, it additionally introduces a brand new ecological standpoint, masking average mess ups, source use, demographics, and river keep an eye on.

ISBN-10: 041583533X

ISBN-13: 9780415835336

Nazi Germany and Japan occupied large components at the least for a few interval in the course of global struggle II, and people territories turned critical components in their conflict economies. The publication specializes in the regulations of global struggle II aggressors in occupied countries.

The unbalanced monetary and fiscal family have been outlined by way of administrative regulate, the implementation of associations and various army exploitation innovations. Plundering, looting and requisitions have been common competitive acts, yet past those interventions via strength, particular associations have been created to achieve regulate over the occupied economies as a complete. a suitable institutional atmosphere used to be additionally the most important to offer incentives to the firms within the occupied nations to supply munitions for the aggressors. The e-book explains the most fields of warfare exploitation (organisation and keep an eye on, struggle financing and team recruitment). It substantiates those features in case reviews of occupied nations and provides examples of the enterprise coverage of establishment businesses less than struggle stipulations. The publication additionally offers an account of transformations and similarities of the 2 profession systems.

Economies below profession will curiosity researchers specialising within the heritage of monetary suggestion in addition to in fiscal concept and philosophy. it's going to additionally have interaction readers excited about local eu and eastern reviews and imperial histories.

By Naoko Matsumoto, Hidetaka Bessho, Makoto Tomii

ISBN-10: 159874335X

ISBN-13: 9781598743357

By Dennis B. Smith

ISBN-10: 0312127588

ISBN-13: 9780312127589

ISBN-10: 031212760X

ISBN-13: 9780312127602

ISBN-10: 0333590252

ISBN-13: 9780333590256

ISBN-10: 1349241261

ISBN-13: 9781349241262

Few historians have tried an account of Japan considering the fact that 1945 but the country's emergence because the moment biggest economic climate on the planet has been some of the most dramatic and critical advancements because the moment international struggle. Dennis Smith's paintings takes a intentionally ancient strategy within the trust that it truly is most unlikely to evaluate the character of post-war Japan's success with out first contemplating the importance of the pre-war and wartime legacy. It blends politics and economics, conscious that during Japan the shut hyperlinks among the worlds of politics, executive and of commercial deny inflexible divisions.

By Siegfried Bocherer, Tomoyoshi Ibukiyama, Masanobu Kaneko, Fumihiro Sato

ISBN-10: 9812566325

ISBN-13: 9789812566324

ISBN-10: 9812774416

ISBN-13: 9789812774415

This quantity includes a precious selection of articles awarded at a convention on Automorphic kinds and Zeta features in reminiscence of Tsuneo Arakawa, an eminent researcher in modular kinds in numerous variables and zeta features. The publication starts with a assessment of his works, by means of sixteen articles via specialists within the fields together with H Aoki, R Berndt, ok Hashimoto, S Hayashida, Y Hironaka, H Katsurada, W Kohnen, A Krieg, A Murase, H Narita, T Oda, B Roberts, R Schmidt, R Schulze-Pillot, N Skoruppa, T Sugano, and D Zagier. numerous themes within the conception of modular kinds and zeta services are coated: Theta sequence and the foundation difficulties, Jacobi types, automorphic varieties on Sp(1, q), double zeta capabilities, exact values of zeta and L-functions, lots of that are heavily on the topic of Arakawa's works. This number of papers illustrates Arakawa's contributions and the present developments in modular kinds in different variables and similar zeta services.

By Stefan Tanaka

ISBN-10: 0520201701

ISBN-13: 9780520201705

Stefan Tanaka examines how overdue 19th and early 20th century eastern historians created the identical of an "Orient" for his or her new country kingdom. He argues that the japanese tried to take advantage of various pasts--Chinese, Indian, and proto-historic Japanese--to build an id that was once either sleek and Asian.