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Free Download Kaiten: Japan’s Secret Manned Suicide Submarine and the First American Ship It Sank in WWII (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B00JVY3OIQ | 2014 | 10 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 284 MB
Author: Michael Mair, Joy Waldron
Narrator: Robertson Dean

Free Download Jay Mcroy, "Nightmare Japan: Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema"
English | 2008 | pages: 219 | ISBN: 9042023317 | PDF | 4,1 mb
Over the last two decades, Japanese filmmakers have produced some of the most important and innovative works of cinematic horror. At once visually arresting, philosophically complex, and politically charged, films by directors like Tsukamoto Shinya (Tetsuo: The Iron Man [1988] and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer [1992]), Sato Hisayasu (Muscle [1988] and Naked Blood [1995]) Kurosawa Kiyoshi (Cure [1997], Séance [2000], and Kaïro [2001]), Nakata Hideo (Ringu [1998], Ringu II [1999], and Dark Water [2002]), and Miike Takashi (Audition [1999] and Ichi the Killer [2001]) continually revisit and redefine the horror genre in both its Japanese and global contexts. In the process, these and other directors of contemporary Japanese horror film consistently contribute exciting and important new visions, from postmodern reworkings of traditional avenging spirit narratives to groundbreaking works of cinematic terror that position depictions of radical or ‘monstrous’ alterity/hybridity as metaphors for larger socio-political concerns, including shifting gender roles, reconsiderations of the importance of the extended family as a social institution, and reconceptualisations of the very notion of cultural and national boundaries.

Free Download Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History (SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan) By Ethan Mark
2018 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 1350022209 | PDF | 7 MB
Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate the Japanese occupation of Java as a transnational intersection between two complex Asian societies, placing this narrative in a larger wartime context of domestic, regional, and global crisis. Japan’s occupation of Java is here revealed in a radically new and nuanced light, as an ambiguous encounter revolutionary in the degree of mutual interests that drew the two sides together, fascinating and tragic in its evolution, and profound in the legacies left behind. Mark structures his study around a diverse group of Japanese and Indonesians captivated by the wartime vision of a ‘Greater Asia.’ The book is not only the first transnational study of Japan’s wartime occupation of Java, but the first to focus on the Second World War experience in transnational terms ‘on the ground’ anywhere in Asia. Breaking new ground interpretatively, thematically and narratively, Mark’s monumental study is of vital significance for students and scholars of modern Asian and global history.

Free Download H. Yoshinobu, "The Tokyo Trial: War Criminals and Japan’s Postwar International Relations"
English | ISBN: 4866582308 | 2022 | 400 pages | PDF | 108 MB
The Tokyo Trial, like the Nuremberg Trial, was unique as a judicial event. Presided over by eleven Allied judges, Japan’s wartime leaders were individually tried in an international court of justice for crimes against international law. After two years of hearings, a majority judgment found twenty-five of the accused guilty; seven were sentenced to death. However, factionalism amongst justices and competing political interests served to undermine the final judgment, widely criticized as "victors’ justice." Some seventy years later, its legacy continues to inform international politics and polarize ideological debate. In this revised English edition of his 2008 book, Tokyo Saiban, winner in the History and Civilization category of the 30th Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities, eminent political scientist Dr. HIGURASHI Yoshinobu sets aside routine ideological approaches that have characterized study of the tribunal until now and focuses our attention on the engrossing political dynamics surrounding the Tokyo Trial and its current impacts. Drawing on exhaustive research into foreign policy documents and inter-ministerial correspondence, Higurashi traces the contours of diplomacy in the wake of World War II, revisiting the Tokyo Trial from the viewpoint of Japan’s postwar international relations to shed new light on an event unprecedented in world history.

Free Download Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return by Miryam Sas
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0674053400 | 300 Pages | PDF | 13.5 MB
In the years of rapid economic growth following the protest movements of the 1960s, artists and intellectuals in Japan searched for a means of direct impact on the whirlwind of historical and cultural transformations of their time.

Free Download Britain’s Secret War against Japan, 1937-1945 by Douglas Ford
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0415358469 | 272 Pages | EPUB | 1.0 MB
A new look at how Britain’s defence establishment learned to engage Japan’s armed forces as the Pacific War progressed.

Free Download Britain’s Secret War against Japan, 1937-1945 by Douglas Ford
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0415358469 | 272 Pages | EPUB | 1.0 MB
A new look at how Britain’s defence establishment learned to engage Japan’s armed forces as the Pacific War progressed.

Free Download Jeff Kingston, "Japan in Transformation, 1945-2020 Ed 3"
English | ISBN: 1138369616 | 2021 | 226 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Japan in Transformation, 1945-2020 has been newly revised and updated to examine the 3.11 natural and nuclear disasters, Emperor Akihito’s abdication, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s legacies, the 2019 World Cup and the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to COVID-19.

Free Download Tanaka Akihiko Kitaoka Shinichi, Kokubun Ryosei, Nakanishi Hiroshi, Shiraishi Takashi, "Examining Heisei Japan: Diplomacy and Security : Vol. I"
English | ISBN: 4866581166 | 2021 | pages | PDF | 5 MB
The passing of Emperor Shōwa marked the end of an era-an era memorable in both war and peace. As is the custom, the new emperor’s reign was given a new name, in this case "Heisei," but this did not mean a reset on the international stage. The persistent diplomatic issues remained, and, furthermore, new issues arose. Promoting global peace and stability, preventing natural disasters, relations with China, regional cooperation, Japan’s role in the international order are just some of the many outstanding issues. How did Japan approach them and deal with them? What was accomplished and what still needs to be done? Given the issues’ paramount importance for both Japan and the world at large, this anthology brings together influential essays published by five of Japan’s leading scholars during the period.

Free Download Richard Fuller, Ron Gregory – Military Swords of Japan 1868-1945
Arms & Armour Press | 1986 | ISBN: 085368796X | English | 136 pages | PDF | 105.87 MB
Invaluable reference covers rebellion, army, air force, navy, and civil officials’ swords, plus military dirks, including the kamikaze "aikuchi" blades, sword knots and belts, and swords for surrender.