Japan's Infamous Unit 731

Hal Gold

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• This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in China during WWII. Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia ... Lees meer

The Heike Story

Eiji Yoshikawa

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• The Heike Story is a modern translation of a Japanese classic. Kyoto in the twelfth century was a magnificent city, but crime, disorder, and lust were... Lees meer

Dream of the Red Chamber

Cao Xueqin

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• "One of the great novels of world literature...to the Chinese as Proust is to the French or Karamazov to the Russians." --Anthony West, literary criti... Lees meer

The Noh Plays of Japan

Arthur Waley

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• The Noh Plays of Japan is the most respected collection of Noh plays in English. The classic Japanese plays can be read for their great literary merit... Lees meer

The Tale of Genji

Murasaki Shikibu

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• The most famous work of Japanese literature and the world's first novel--written a thousand years ago and one of the enduring classics of world litera... Lees meer

The Gossamer Years

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• Kagero Nikki , translated here as The Gossamer Years , belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu. This remarkabl... Lees meer

In Ghostly Japan

Lafcadio Hearn

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• The Japanese have two kinds of ghosts in their folklore--the spirits of the dead, and the spirits of the living. This classic of Japanese literature i... Lees meer

The Water Margin

Shi Naian

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• **Named by Men's Health : "50 Books Every Man Should Read Before Turning 50"** Based upon the historical bandit Song Jiang and his companions, The Wat... Lees meer

Romance of the Three Kingdoms Volume 1

Lo Kuan-Chung

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• This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death forms part of the indelible core of classical Chinese cultur... Lees meer

Harp of Burma

Michio Takeyama

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• Harp of Burma is Japan's classic novel of pathos and compassion in the midst of senseless warfare. Winner of the prestigious Mainichi Shuppan Bunkasho... Lees meer

A Hundred Verses from Old Japan

Porter William

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• Discover this classic translation of one of Japan's most famous poetry anthologies. This gem of Japanese poetry has preserved its charm for over a cen... Lees meer

The Ronin

William Dale Jennings

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• "A thunderbolt, full of lightning and excitement, one you won't put down until its last extraordinary page." -- The Japan Times The violence of twelft... Lees meer

Tale of Genji: A Reader's Guide

William J Puette

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• "Those who wish to deepen their acquaintance with Murasaki's wondrous world will certainly find Puette's guide most helpful." -- The Japan Times This ... Lees meer

Japanese Tea Ceremony

A L Sadler

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• The tea cermony--known as cha-no-yu , or literally hot water for tea--has touched nearly every aspect of Japanese life. First published in 1933 as Cha... Lees meer

Romance of the Three Kingdoms Volume 2

Lo Kuan-Chung

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• This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death, forms part of the indelible core of classical Chinese cultu... Lees meer

A History of Tokyo 1867-1989

Edward Seidensticker

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• "This is a freaking great book and I highly recommend it...if you are passionate about the history of 'the world's greatest city, ' this book is somet... Lees meer

Japanese Fairy Tales

Ozaki Yei

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• This colorfully illustrated multicultural children's book presents Japanese fairy tales and other folk stories--providing insight into a rich literary... Lees meer

The Tale of Genji

Murasaki Shikibu

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• "What Waley did create is literary art of extraordinary beauty that brings to life in English the world Murasaki Shikibu imagined. The beauty of his a... Lees meer

A History of Japanese Art

Noritake Tsuda

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• A History of Japanese Art offers readers a comprehensive view of Japanese art through Japanese eyes--a view that is the most revealing of all perspect... Lees meer

Chinese Ghost Stories

Lafcadio Hearn

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• Chinese Ghost Stories offers a selection of entertaining Chinese tales of the fantastical and paranormal. Author Lafcadio Hearn had a great affinity f... Lees meer

Darkness in Summer

Takeshi Kaiko

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• This intensely modern novel ... provides vivid insights into the alienated condition of a certain type of Japanese whom we may so often glimpse in the... Lees meer

Botchan

Soseki Natsume

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• A modern classic in Japan on par with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or The Catcher in the Rye, Botchan is a very popular Japanese novel and still... Lees meer

Japanese Plays

A L Sadler

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• Classic works from Noh, Kyogen, and Kabuki theaters Nothing reflects the beauty of life as much as Japanese theater. It is here that reality is held s... Lees meer

I Am a Cat

Soseki Natsume

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• Written over the course of 1904-6, Soseki's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meij... Lees meer