Books on Japan
(list selected summer 2006)
The list below contains currently available titles. Readers in Japan will be able to obtain books quickly from stock in Japan. For more details on titles click on the ISBN link. Prices shown are basic publisher price, shipping and tax may be extra. To order from IMC, please send a fax (03-3876-3627) or email to confirm availability, price and payment. If you would like to buy at our office, please call in advance (03-3876-3073). See address http://imcbook.htm/address.htm. If a book is not on the shelf, it may take us two days to obtain it.
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TITLE
AUTHOR
YEAR PAGES

PRICE
ISBN-10
A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower 2nd ed Henshall, Kenneth G 2004 264pp paperback £13.99 1-4039-1272-6
A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance Leiter, Samuel L (ed) 2002 430pp paperback US$29.95 0-7656-0705-0
A Short History of Japan: From Samurai to Sony Andressen, Curtis 2002 252pp paperback A$27.22 1-86508-516-2
A Year in Japan Williamson, Kate T 2006 192pp paperback US$16.95 1-56898-540-1
An Introduction to Japanese Society 2nd ed Sugimoto, Yoshio 2003 316pp paperback US$25.99 0-521-52925-5
Ancient Jomon of Japan Habu, Junko 2004 332pp paperback US$29.99 0-521-77670-8
Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation updated ed Napier, Susan J 2005 355pp paperback £14.99 1-4039-7052-1
Armed Martial Arts of Japan: Swordsmanship and Archery Hurst, G Cameron 2005 243pp paperback US$25.00 0-300-11674-8
Art of the Japanese Postcard: Masterpieces From The Leonard A Lauder Collection Morse, Anne N et al 2004 288pp paperback £19.99 0-85331-906-5
Basho's Journey: The Literary Prose of Matsuo Basho Matsuo, Basho / Barnhill, David L (trans) 2005 191pp paperback US$19.95 0-7914-6414-8
Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture Ikegami, Eiko 2005 460pp paperback US$36.99 0-521-60115-0
Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan Roth, Joshua H 2002 161pp paperback US$17.95 0-8014-8808-7
Colloquial Japanese: The Complete Course for Beginners Book/Cassete/CD Clarke, Hugh & Hamamura, Motoko 2002 336pp pack £23.76 0-415-19480-6
Contemporary Japanese Thought Calichman, Richard (ed) 2005 309pp paperback US$24.50 0-231-13621-8
Cutting Edge: Japanese Swords in the British Museum Harris, Victor 2004 160pp paperback £21.25 0-7141-2419-2
Defending Japan's Pacific War: The Kyoto School Philosophers and Post-White Power Williams, David 2004 238pp paperback £19.99 0-415-32315-0
Doing Fieldwork in Japan Bestor, Theodore C et al (ed) 2003 414pp paperback US$28.00 0-8248-2734-1
Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 Shirane, Haruo 2004 1027pp paperback US$27.50 0-231-10991-1
Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist Humanism Seager, Richard Hughes 2006 245pp paperback US$19.95 0-520-24577-6
Expressive Japanese: A Reference Guide to Sharing Emotion and Empathy Maynard, Senko K 2005 434pp paperback US$24.00 0-8248-2889-5
Fanning the Flames: Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan Kelly, William W (ed) 2004 202pp paperback US$19.95 0-7914-6032-0
Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality Mackie, Vera 2003 293pp paperback US$29.99 0-521-52719-8
Five Modern Japanese Novelists Keene, Donald 2005 113pp paperback US$20.00 0-231-12611-5
Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts in the Constructions of Japanese Modernity Yoda, Tomiko 2004 277pp paperback US$23.95 0-8223-3237-X
Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan Pitelka, Morgan 2005 236pp paperback US$29.00 0-8248-2970-0
Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo Fraleigh, Sondra & Nakamura, Tamah 2006 178pp paperback £12.99 0-415-35439-0
Home Away from Home: Japanese Corporate Wives in the United States Kurotani, Sawa 2005 242pp paperback US$21.95 0-8223-3622-7
House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930 Sand, Jordan 2005 482pp paperback US$25.00 0-674-01966-0
Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain Schattschneider, Ellen 2003 268pp paperback US$21.95 0-8223-3062-8
In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army Drea, Edward J 2003 299pp paperback US$29.95 0-8032-6638-3
Introduction to Japanese Politics 4th ed Hayes, Louis D 2005 395pp paperback US$28.95 0-7656-1338-7
Japan Encyclopedia Frederic, Louis / Roth, Kathe (trans) 2005 1102pp paperback US$29.95 0-674-01753-6
Japan from War to Peace: The Coaldrake Records 1939-1956 Coaldrake, William H (ed) 2003 530pp paperback £22.99 0-7007-1722-6
Japan in the Twenty-first Century: Environment, Economy, and Society Karan, Pradyumnapp 2005 401pp paperback US$45.00 0-8131-9118-1
Japan Pop!: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture Craig, Timothy J (ed) 2000 348pp paperback US$25.95 0-7656-0561-9
Japan: The Burden of Success Bouissou, Jean-Marie / Derrick, Jonathan (trans) 2002 374pp paperback £14.95 1-85065-569-3
Japan's Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in the Twenty-First Century Kingston, Jeff 2004 358pp paperback £22.99 0-415-27483-4
Japanese - The Written Language, Part 1, Vol 1: Katakana (textbook) Jorden, Eleanor H & Noda, Mari 2005 123pp paperback US$25.00 0-300-04818-1
Japanese Conversation Book/3 CDs Gilhooly, Helen 2005 48pp pack £12.76 0-340-90027-X
Japanese Design (with CD-ROM)
2006 128pp paperback US$39.95 0-486-99697-2
Japanese Documentary Film: The Meiji Era through Hiroshima Nornes, Abe M 2003 258pp paperback US$19.95 0-8166-4046-7
Japanese Frames of Mind: Cultural Perspectives on Human Development Shimizu, Hidetada & LeVine, Robert A (ed) 2002 277pp paperback US$29.99 0-521-78698-3
Japanese Horror Cinema McRoy, Jay (ed) 2005 220pp paperback £16.99 0-7486-1995-X
Japanese Kimono Designs Nomura, Masajiro & Ema, Tsutomu 2005 64pp paperback US$14.95 0-486-44426-0
Japanese Morphophonemics: Markedness and Word Structure Ito, Junko & Mester, Armin 2003 303pp paperback US$32.00 0-262-59023-9
Japanese No Masks: With 300 Illustrations of Authentic Historical Examples Perzynski, Friedrich 2005 176pp paperback US$12.95 0-486-44014-1
Japanese Sports: A History Guttmann, Allen & Thompson, Lee 2001 307pp paperback US$20.00 0-8248-2464-4
Japanese, Instant Book/Cassette Smith, Elisabeth 2003 96pp pack £12.99 0-340-86837-6
Japanese, Instant Book/CD Smith, Elisabeth 2003 96pp pack £14.99 0-340-86706-X
Japanese Book/2 Casettes Ballhatchet, Helen & Kaiser, Stefan 2003 339pp pack £23.90 0-340-87079-6
Japanese Book/2 CDs Ballhatchet, Helen & Kaiser, Stefan 2003 339pp pack £27.99 0-340-87080-X
Kabuki Heroes on the Osake Stege, 1780-1830 Gerstle, C Andrew 2005 304pp paperback £21.25 0-7141-2430-3
Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin Ryang, Sonia (ed) 2005 229pp paperback £18.99 0-415-37939-3
Kyoto: A Cultural and Literary History Dougill, John / Richie, Donald (foreword) 2006 242pp paperback \2,500 1-904955-13-4
Lamentation as History: Narratives by Koreans in Japan, 1965-2000 Wender, Melissa L 2005 252pp paperback US$19.95 0-8047-5041-6
Listen and Learn Japanese Book/ 2 CDs Kai, Miwa 2006 80pp pack US$11.95 0-486-99671-9
Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan Samuels, Richard J 2005 456pp paperback US$24.95 0-8014-8982-2
Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku Reader, Ian 2006 350pp paperback US$29.00 0-8248-2907-7
Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics Gravett, Paul 2004 176pp paperback £16.95 1-85669-391-0
Mishima: A Vision of the Void Yourcenar, Marguerite / Manguel, Alberto (trans) 2001 152pp paperback US$14.00 0-226-96532-5
Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Postmodern Denoon, Donald et al (ed) 2001 302pp paperback US$27.99 0-521-00362-8
Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji 2nd ed Bowring, Richard 2004 106pp paperback US$14.99 0-521-53975-7
Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon Tobin, Joseph (ed) 2004 299pp paperback US$21.95 0-8223-3287-6
Reading a Japanese Film: Cinema in Context McDonald, Keiko I 2006 292pp paperback US$20.00 0-8248-2993-X
Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573-1912 Thal, Sarah 2005 409pp paperback US$22.50 0-226-79421-0
Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game Fitts, Robert K 2005 233pp paperback US$19.95 0-8093-2630-2
Ritual Practice in Modern Japan: Ordering Place, People, and Action Kawano, Satsuki 2005 152pp paperback US$17.00 0-8248-2934-4
Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan Friday, Karl F 2004 236pp paperback £20.99 0-415-32963-9
Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism Lesser, Jeffrey (ed) 2003 219pp paperback US$21.95 0-8223-3148-9
Shinto: A Short History Inoue, Nobutaka (ed) / Teeuwen, M & Breen, J (trans) 2003 223pp paperback £17.99 0-415-31913-7
Shinto: The Way Home Kasulis, Thomaspp 2004 184pp paperback US$15.00 0-8248-2850-X
Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Return Migration in Transnational Perspective Tsuda, Takeyuki 2003 431pp paperback US$30.50 0-231-12839-8
Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii Ruh, Brian 2004 230pp paperback £12.99 1-4039-6334-7
Studies in Japanese Bilingualism Noguchi, Mary Goebel & Fotos, Sandra (ed) 2001 386pp paperback £29.95 1-85359-489-X
The Allied Occupation of Japan Takemae, Eiji / Ricketts, Robert & Swann, Sebastian (trans) 2003 751pp paperback £25.00 0-8264-1521-0
The Asian Collections: Art Gallery of New South Wales Menzies, Jackie 2004 352pp paperback £19.50 0-7347-6351-4
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture Benedict, Ruth 2005 324pp paperback US$15.00 0-618-61959-3
The Ethos of Noh: Actors and Their Art Rath, Eric C 2006 317pp paperback US$20.00 0-674-02120-7
The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics Tsujimura, Natsuko (ed) 2002 543pp paperback £29.99 0-631-23494-2
The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori Ravina, Mark 2004 265pp paperback US$16.95 0-471-70537-3
The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty-First Century Sorensen, Andre 2004 386pp paperback £24.99 0-415-35422-6
The Music of Toru Takemitsu Burt, Peter 2006 294pp paperback US$48.00 0-521-02695-4
The State of Civil Society in Japan Schwartz, Frank J & Pharr, Susan J (ed) 2003 392pp paperback US$27.99 0-521-53462-3
The Structure of Detachment: The Aesthetic Vision of Kuki Shuzo - with a Translation of Iki no Kozo Nara, Hiroshi / Rimer, J Thomas & Mikkelsen, Jon M (essays) 2005 185pp paperback US$16.00 0-8248-2805-4
Topographies of Japanese Modernism Lippit, Seiji M 2002 301pp paperback US$26.50 0-231-12531-3
Toshie: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan Partner, Simon 2004 195pp paperback US$19.95 0-520-24097-9
Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World Bestor, Theodore C 2004 411pp paperback US$24.95 0-520-22024-2
Understanding Humor in Japan Davis, Jessica Milner (ed) 2006 249pp paperback US$29.95 0-8143-3165-3
Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan Inoue, Miyako 2006 323pp paperback US$24.95 0-520-24585-7
What Is Modernity?: Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi Takeuchi, Yoshimi 2005 182pp paperback US$24.50 0-231-13327-8
Why Are the Japanese Non-Religious?: Japanese Spirituality - Being Non-Religious in a Religious Culture Ama, Toshimaro 2005 90pp paperback US$20.00 0-7618-3056-1
Working Out in Japan: Shaping the Female Body in Tokyo Fitness Clubs Spielvogel, Laura 2003 250pp paperback US$19.95 0-8223-3049-0
Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement Bernardi, Joanne 2001 354pp paperback US$19.95 0-8143-2961-6
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan Keene, Donald 2006 208pp paperback US$19.95 0-231-13057-0
Zen at War 2nd ed Victoria, Brian Daizen 2006 285pp paperback US$19.95 0-7425-3926-1
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