Designing Japan

Hara Kenya
Translated by Maggie Kinser Hohle and Naito Yukiko

Designing Japan: A Future Built on Aesthetics presents renowned designer Kenya Hara’s vision of how...

The Dojima Rice Exchange

Takatsuki Yasuo
Translated by Louisa Rubinfien

The Dojima Rice Exchange of the Edo period (1603-1868), located in Osaka, Japan, is known among...

The Economics of Colonialism in Korea

Kimura Mitsuhiko

From 1910 to 1945, Korea was a colony of Imperial Japan. Its governance has been described...

Edo Japan Encounters the World

Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro
Translated by Tony Gonzalez

Edo Japan Encounters the World continues the conversation, begun nearly twenty years earlier in The...

Empire of the Seas

Shiraishi Takashi

Winner of the 2000 Yomiuri Yoshino Sakuzo Prize for academic writing on politics, economics, and...

The Entrepreneur Who Built Modern Japan

Shimada Masakazu
Translated by Paul Narum

In this penetrating biography of Shibusawa Eiichi (1840–1931), one of Japan's foremost...

The Era of Great Disasters

Iokibe Makoto
Translated by Tony Gonzalez
Foreword by Yamazaki Masakazu

The Era of Great Disasters examines modern disaster response in Japan, from the changing earthquake...

Essays on the History of Scientific Thought in Modern Japan

Edited by Kanamori Osamu
Translated by Christopher Carr and M.G. Sheftall

This book covers the history of physics, chemistry, and pharmacology in modern Japan, focusing on...

Every Day a Good Day

Morishita Noriko
Translated by Eleanor Goldsmith

I could not walk correctly.I did not know where to sit.I did not know which hand to use, what to...

Examining Heisei Japan, Vol. I

Kitaoka Shinichi (supervisor), Kokubun Ryosei, Nakanishi Hiroshi, Shiraishi Takashi, and Tanaka Akihiko

The passing of Emperor Shōwa marked the end of an era—an era memorable in both war and peace. As is...

Examining Heisei Japan, Vol. II

Supervised by Kitaoka Shinichi
Edited by Iio Jun

Beginning as the Cold War entered its final thaw and ending shortly before the outbreak of the...

Examining Heisei Japan, Vol. III

Supervised by Kitaoka Shinichi
Edited by Komine Takao

Over the Heisei era the Japanese economy was confronted with a multitude of uncharted challenges:...