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Free Download J. Victor Koschmann, "Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan "
English | ISBN: 0226451224 | | 301 pages | PDF | 17 MB
After World War II, Japanese intellectuals believed that world history was moving inexorably toward bourgeois democracy and then socialism. But who would be the agents-the active "subjects"-of that revolution in Japan? Intensely debated at the time, this question of active subjectivity influenced popular ideas about nationalism and social change that still affect Japanese political culture today.

Free Download Lim Hua Sing, "Japan and China in East Asian Integration"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 9812307443 | PDF | pages: 410 | 8.0 mb
"This is an excellent and versatile textbook, as well as an intervention in the scholarly debate on the Asian economies. During the last few years Lim has paid particular attention to China, realizing that the Chinese and Japanese economies are complementary and dependent on each other. The chapters are free-standing, which makes it easier to use the book as a text, as the instructor can be selective, if needed." – Professor Hans C. Blomqvist, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland "Professor Lim’s book is not only a discussion of the Japanese upswing and decade-long plateau. Most of all it is about Japan’s position in the interdependent economies of East and Southeast Asia. What this book convincingly demonstrates is that, despite the rise of China, the Japanese will remain a major source of expansion and innovation in ASEAN, in Asia and beyond." – Professor David Reisman, Department of Economics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Free Download Ian Heath, "Japan and Korea (Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Asia)"
English | 2011 | pages: 146 | ISBN: 1901543250 | PDF (scan) | 131,0 mb
This volume provides a detailed study of the astonishing reinvention of the Empire of Japan during the 19th century as it emerged from 200 years of self-imposed isolation to become a military superpower. As late as the 1850s the country remained technologically and militarily stagnant, but within just 40 years – in what must rank as the most rapid and comprehensive cultural transformation in world history – it had managed not only to absorb and successfully imitate several hundred years of Western technological progress, but had become one of the late Victorian world’s top ten military powers. During the same timeframe it also embraced the concept of colonialism, and with its invasion of China in 1894 and virtual occupation of Korea soon after took its first fateful steps along a road that would lead, with horrible inevitability, to head-on collision with the Allies in World War Two.

Free Download Akihiko Watanabe, "Japan on the Jesuit Stage: Two 17th-Century Latin Plays with Translation and Commentary "
English | ISBN: 1350217204 | 2022 | 272 pages | PDF | 24 MB
The Jesuits were a major source of European information on Japan from the late 16th to early 17th century. Not only were they active missionaries but they also produced linguistic, religious and cultural tracts, regional chronicles, as well as hundreds of Latin plays written in imitation of classical Greco-Roman theatre but set in Japan. An intriguing yet underexplored segment of Jesuit school theatre is that which stages non-classical, non-Western subjects such as Japan, and this volume is the first to present Latin texts of two of these plays alongside full English translations, commentaries and an extensive introduction.

Free Download Istanbul Selçuk Esenbel, Bogazici University, "Japan, Turkey and the World of Islam"
English | 2011 | pages: 364 | ISBN: 1906876126 | PDF | 3,2 mb
Widely known for her writings on Islam with a particular focus on the transnational history of politics in Islam and Japan, this volume brings together twenty of the author’s key essays thematically structured as ‘Japan and Islam’, ‘Japanese Ottoman Relations and Japanese-Turkish Interaction’, and ‘Reflections on Tokugawa Japan from Turkey’. Awarded the Japan Foundation Special Prize for Japanese Studies in 2007, Selçuk Esenbel’s volume will provide an invaluable reference resource for current and future research in an increasingly important context.

Free Download A Pioneer of Management Research and Education in Japan: Challenges from Kobe University Business School
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819908671 | 251 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 28 MB
The purpose of this book is to clarify the mission and history of Kobe University Business School (KUBS), not only for the development of management education but also for the familiarization of industry in Japan with the ideas of modern management. Kobe University was the first in Japan to establish a faculty of business administration and has continued to conduct research and education in the field to this day. Under the influence of Germany and the USA, the academic area of management in Japan has achieved unique development not witnessed in other countries. Since 1902, when its predecessor, Kobe Higher Commercial School, was established, KUBS has been a pioneer of research and education in management studies in Japan by overcoming many obstacles and difficulties.

Free Download A History of Japan in Manga
by Shunichiro,Kanaya;Davisson, Zack;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 4805316705 | 322 pages | True PDF | 144.49 MB

Free Download 140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan’s Last Chance to Avert Armageddon (Audiobook)
English | May 12, 2020 | ASIN: B084Z183LM | MP3@128 kbps | 13h 7m | 689.51 MB
Author: David Dean Barrett
Narrator: Stephen Graybill

Free Download Overseas Energy Investment of Korea and Japan:
How did Two East Asian Resources-Rare Industrial Giants Respond to Energy Security Challenges
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819902843 | 476 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB

Free Download David Watts Barton, "Japan from Anime to Zen: Quick Takes on Culture, Art, History, Food… and More"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 161172063X | 304 pages | AZW3 / MOBI | 1.7 MB
This friendly guide offers concise but detailed demystifications of more than 85 aspects of ancient and modern Japan. It can be read in sequence, or just dipped into, depending on the moment’s need. Explanations go much deeper than a typical travel guide and cover 1,500 years of history and culture, everything from geisha to gangsters, haiku to karaoke, the sun goddess to the shogunate . . . and anime to Zen.