Ostfildern, Germany: Verlag Karl Baedeker, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. More

Tokyo, Japan: University of Tokyo Press, 2001. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Rare. With promotional band on dust jacket. Historical demography is the study of patterns and changes in a society's population before the collection of data through modern censuses. For Japan, data on family size and structure, fertility and infant..... More

London: Pushkin Children's Books/Pushkin Press, 2015. Mika Provata-Carlone (illustrations). Softcover. A whale falls in love with a military submarine, and dies courting her; a mother caught in a fire following a bombing gives all her body’s water to save her son, and her desiccated form turns into a kite; a...... More

Richmond: Curzon Press, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, No. 69. This is the first full-length presentation of Japan's pre-industrial fishing culture and a careful application of anthropological method to historical research. Shows that Tokugawa Japan's fishing villages were critical to Japan's economic development, being..... More

London: Faber and Faber, 2018. Megan Backus (tr.). New Paperback Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film. When..... More

Guilford: The Lyons Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. More

Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1952. William A. Bostick (catalogue design), Sylvester Luca (photos), Leo Teholiz (map of Japan). Second Edition. Paperback, Staple-Bound. Features map of Japan with indications of localities represented in exhibit. More

Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2007. First Edition. Paperback (Outsized). Contemporary Japanese Workbook, Volume 2 was created as a supplementary material for Contemporary Japanese: An Introductory Textbook for College Students. A workbook which is best used for reviewing and reinforcing the concepts and learning materials introduced in the textbook, it is also..... More

Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2007. Reprint. Paperback. From a Japan Times book review, Sept. 27, 2014: If there’s room in your life for just one general history of Japan, let this be the one. In the hands of a master, history becomes art. British scholar-diplomat Sir George Bailey Sansom (1883-1965)..... More

New York: Vintage International, 2013. Jay Rubin (tr), Philip Gabriel (tr). Paperback. The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo..... More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Second Printing. Softcover. In the first book in English in almost half a century to study the full evolution of peasant protest in Japan, Bix looks at Japan's rural and urban uprisings over the course of its transition from late feudal to early capitalist..... More

Milwaukie: Dark Horse Comics, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. Manji, a ronin warrior of feudal Japan, has been cursed with immortality and to rid his eternal suffering and lift the curse, he must slay one thousand enemies, and his quest begins with a young girl who seeks revenge on her parents'..... More

Tokyo, Japan: Japan Travel Bureau, 1963. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. More