The Man Behind the Bridge

Peter E Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey was the senior British officer concerned with the building of the notorious "Bridge over the River Kwai". Toosey unde... Lees meer

Japan and the Challenge of Europe 1992

Tatsujiro Ishikawa

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• The spotlight is on the 1992 programme for the creation of a single European market and its consequences for the relationship between Japan and Europe... Lees meer

Showa

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• Showa, Japanese for 'radiant peace', was the name given to Emperor Hirohito's reign at his accession in 1926. This was the beginning of a significant ... Lees meer

Kipling's Japan

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• Kipling visited Japan in 1889 and 1892. No other leading English literary figure of his day spent so long in that country or wrote so fully about it. ... Lees meer

Japan and the City of London

Sir Paul Newall

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• From an insider's position, Sir Paul Newall tells the story of Japan's links with the City of London and explains why the City was first chosen by Jap... Lees meer

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance

Ian Nish

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• In this book Professor Nish deals with one of the most important aspects of far eastern politics in the critical period between 1894 and 1907. His obj... Lees meer

China, Japan and the European Community

Robert Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• In 1990, China, rich in natural resources but short on technology and managerial skills, offers enormous potential for trade and economic cooperation ... Lees meer

Japan's Quest for Comprehensive Security

J W M Chapman, I T M Gow, Reinhard Drifte

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• This book examines the key elements which together comprise a viable national security policy. The emergence of the concept of 'comprehensive security... Lees meer

New Zealand and Japan 1945-1952

Ann Trotter

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• An account of New Zealand's relations with Japan during the years immediately following World War II. Drawing upon primary sources, the book examines ... Lees meer

Evaluating Applied Research

Dale T Irvin

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• The issue of how to achieve value for money from government-funded R&D has over recent years become increasingly important in all industrial nations. ... Lees meer

Japanese Government Loan Issues on the London Capital Market 1870-1913

Toshio Suzuki

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• Based on bank and official archives, this book focuses on Japan's financial activities abroad - in particular, Japan's borrowings. This is the story o... Lees meer

Flexible Rigidities

Ronald Dore

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• Professor Ronald Dore examines how, despite the Japanese 'flagrantly flouting all received principles of capitalist rationality', they are able to adj... Lees meer

The Japanese Police State

Elise K Tipton

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• This is a specialized study of the organization, ideology and activities of the Japanese Special Higherpolice, the Tokkô, notorious in pre-war and war... Lees meer

Japan: The Dutch Experience

Grant Kohn Goodman

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• This revision of Professor Goodman's earlier work, The Dutch Impact on Japan, originally published in 1967, was brought up-to-date with much new infor... Lees meer

Themes and Theories in Modern Japanese History

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• For many years, Richard Storry directed Japanese studies at the University of Oxford. This volume, designed as a tribute to his life and work, is comp... Lees meer

Japan and the North East of England

Marie Conte-Helm

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• The level of Japanese investment and the arrival of Japanese companies in North East England was one of the success stories in the 1970's and 80's. Th... Lees meer

Alliance in Decline

Ian Nish

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• Following his earlier account of The Anglo-Japanese Alliance from 1894 t0 1907, Dr Nish's book studies the renewal of the alliance in 1911 and the wor... Lees meer

Working for the Japanese

Jonathon Morris, Max Munday, Barry Wilkinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• Wales has one of the highest concentrations of Japanese manufacturing investment in Europe. It provides a case study for examining the economic and so... Lees meer

Japan's Reluctant Multinationals

Malcolm Trevor

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• Japanese companies operating internationally resemble Western multinationals only superficially. They are 'reluctant' because outward economic depende... Lees meer

Japan Re-Armed

Malcolm McIntosh

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• At the end of the Pacific War in 1945, Japan laid down her arms and submitted to US technological superiority. The situation today is radically differ... Lees meer

Taking Japan Seriously

Ronald Dore

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• An account of motives and motivations behind Japan's accomplishments, this work emphasizes the role of a Confucian impetus. First published in 1987, t... Lees meer

The Sino-Japanese Axis

Robert Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• The book sets out to examine Sino-Japanese relations, especially since the re-establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Japan in 1972. Post-w... Lees meer

The Political Economy of the Environment

Shigeto Tsuru

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• The first authoritative study of Japan's environmental problems by the acclaimed environmental economist, placing environmental issues within a socioe... Lees meer

Personality in Industry

Hiroshi Tanaka

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: Japan
• Japanese management styles and their relationship to Japanese business success have been aridly studied and analysed in the West, but rarely do Wester... Lees meer