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1. Handbook of Japanese Grammar

   By Harold Henderson

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   This grammar has been written to help the student to think in the Japanese way. Part One contains several introductory notes on Nomenclature, Syntax, Verbs, Aru, Iru, Oru, on Adjectives and on Foreign Words. Part Two concentrates on connectives – the particles and suffixes which modify the sense of...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Health Care in Japan

   By Margaret Powell, Masahira Anesaki

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   In the 1970s and 80s Japan experienced some deep-rooted social changes which affected attitudes to health care services among both professionals and consumers alike. Health Care in Japan provides an introduction to and overview of health and medical services in Japan at that time. It describes the...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Imperial Japan

   1926-1938

   By A Young

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   A journalist on the Japan Chronicle for eleven years, the author collected in this volume the most significant current events for discussion. They include the financial crisis of 1927, hostilities with China and in particular Manchuria, Japan’s booming manufacturing industry, Japanese nationalism,...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Global Japanization?

   The Transnational Transformation of the Labour Process

   Edited by Tony Elger, Chris Smith

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   Global Japaniziation? Brings together research from North America, Japan, Europe and Latin America to analyse the influence of Japanese manufacturing investment and Japanese working practices across the global economy. The editors present original case studies of work reorganization and workers’...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. The Death of Old Yokohama

   In the Great Japanese Earthquake of 1923

   By Otis Poole

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   It was almost noon in the picturesque city of Yokohama on Saturday, September 1st 1923 when the first sway of one of the world’s most destructive earthquakes was felt. The first great shock lasted for four minutes and in that time every building in the city was destroyed, together with 100,000 of...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
6. Democracy and Foreign Policy

   By R Bassett

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   The Sino-Japanese crisis of 1931-33 provides effective illustrations of wider themes in British Foreign Policy. It might even be said that the general pattern of opinion in the UK at the time was to be reproduced in subsequent crises. The Manchurian problem and the controversies which it provoked...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
7. A Cultural History of Postwar Japan

   1945-1980

   By Shunsuke Tsurumi

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   Shunsuke Tsurumi, one of Japan’s most distinguished contemporary philosophers, continues his study of the intellectual and social history of modern Japan with this penetrating analysis of popular culture in the post-war years. Japanese manga (comics), manzai (dialogues), television, advertising and...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
8. An Essay on the Civilisations of India, China and Japan

   By G Dickinson

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   This volume presents an account of the author’s travels during 1912-13 making particular note of the characteristics of Indian, Chinese and Japanese societies and the effect upon them of contact with the West. Although inevitably dated in some of its views, the volume nonetheless provides an...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
9. A Study of Shinto

   The Religion of the Japanese Nation

   By Genchi Katu

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   This volume investigates and present the salient features of Shinto through a long history of development from its remote past up to the present. It is a historical study of Shinto from a scientific point of view, illustrating the higher aspects of the religion, compile on strict lines of religious...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
10. A History of Japan

    By Hisho Saito

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    This volume presents the Japanese version of the history of Japan from its origins, through the subjection of Korea, the introduction of Chinese culture, rebellion in Korea, Buddhism, Taika reforms, Ainu insurrection, the founding of Kyoto as the capital, the power of Fujiwara, the founding of the...

    Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge