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Toward Creation of a New World History
Toward Creation of a New World History
Haneda Masashi
Translated by Noda Makito
Today, as globalization deepens daily and the world becomes increasingly integrated, the time has...
Toward the Abe Statement on the 70th Anniversary of the End of World War II
Toward the Abe Statement on the 70th Anniversary of the End of World War II
Compiled by The Advisory Panel on the History of the 20th Century and on Japan's Role and the World Order in the 21st Century
Translated by Tara Cannon
In 2015 as the world commemorated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the...
Toward the Meiji Revolution
Toward the Meiji Revolution
Karube Tadashi
Translated by David Noble
In 2018, Japan marked the 150th anniversary of the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the...
Traditional Cuisine of the Ryukyu Islands
Traditional Cuisine of the Ryukyu Islands
Takagi Rin
Translated by Deborah Iwabuchi and Enda Kazuko
In recent decades, Okinawan cuisine has earned a place in the Japanese food scene due to its...
Understanding History in Asia
Understanding History in Asia
It is said that the twentieth century was a century of war. War and colonization can leave deep...
Unsung Heroes of Old Japan
Unsung Heroes of Old Japan
Isoda Michifumi
Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter
“I have waited eagerly for the day when Unsung Heroes of Old Japan would be translated into English...
Wasan, the Fascination of Traditional Japanese Mathematics
Wasan, the Fascination of Traditional Japanese Mathematics
Sakurai Susumu
Translated by Emma Ford, with Gaynor Sekimori
Wasan—a unique form of Japanese mathematics—was developed during the Edo period (1603–1868), a time...
Well-Versed
Well-Versed
Ozawa Minoru
Translated by Janine Beichman
Photography by Maeda Shinzō & Akira
This volume of seasonally-arranged poems is a guide to the appreciation and enjoyment of the great...
A Western Pacific Union
A Western Pacific Union
Supervised by Kitaoka Shinichi
Translated by David Noble and Marie Speed
The Cold War ended more than thirty years ago, but the world—and within it, the countries of Asia...
What Is Japanese Cinema?
What Is Japanese Cinema?
Yomota Inuhiko
Translated by Philip Kaffen
What might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozu's sparse portaits of...
The Winding Road to Discovering iPS Cells
The Winding Road to Discovering iPS Cells
Yamanaka Shinya, Interviewer Midori Shinya
Translated by Tony Atkinson
The revolutionary discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, completely changed the...
Words to Live by
Words to Live by
Nakano Kōji
Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter
Nakano Kōji opens the door to the treasury of Japanese classics by introducing six writers who are...