The growing globalization of world business, culture and communicationand Japan's increasingly important role as a leader in that worldmakes understanding Japanese culture critical for business people, diplomats, students, educators and anyone else with an interest in Japan.
The growing globalization of world business, culture and communicationand Japan's increasingly important role as a leader in that worldmakes understanding Japanese culture critical for business people, diplomats, students, educators and anyone else with an interest in Japan.
How British intellectuals of the twentieth century reckoned with the emergence of an Asian powerMost historians of nineteenth and twentieth century Europe point to the persistence of racialised and hierarchical views of non-Europeans as ';uncivilised.
Japan's national economy: understanding the history of the current crisis and proposing a path forwardThe consistent failure of the Japanese bureaucracy and business establishment to meet proper management and regulatory standards has made America's premier ally in Asia a major source of financial instability in today's world.
The cell of self-knowledge: Seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 presents a collection of spiritual writings that guide readers toward deep interior awareness.
Japan's national economy: understanding the history of the current crisis and proposing a path forwardThe consistent failure of the Japanese bureaucracy and business establishment to meet proper management and regulatory standards has made America's premier ally in Asia a major source of financial instability in today's world.
This is an account of life in the foreign communities and former Foreign Settlements or Concessions in Japan that flourished after Japan was opened to foreign trade in 1859.
This is an account of life in the foreign communities and former Foreign Settlements or Concessions in Japan that flourished after Japan was opened to foreign trade in 1859.
A comprehensive new history of Shanghai, revealing its vital place in Chinese history and politics across the centuries Home to 25 million people, Shanghai is the most populous and wealthiest city in China.
**A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2025 **'A brave and magnificent book, and a vital intervention: as elegant as it is witty, as erudite as it is wise, and as stylish as it is scholarly.
Longtime resident of Japan and Japanese culture expert Donald Richie shares his private recollections, capturing the personalities of the Japanese people with insight and humor.
How British intellectuals of the twentieth century reckoned with the emergence of an Asian powerMost historians of nineteenth and twentieth century Europe point to the persistence of racialised and hierarchical views of non-Europeans as ';uncivilised.
Longtime resident of Japan and Japanese culture expert Donald Richie shares his private recollections, capturing the personalities of the Japanese people with insight and humor.
In the Age of the Shoguns, great leaders were philosophers whose strength was measured not just by the sword but by patience, wisdom and moral clarity!
This classic text about Buddhism in Japan by Lafcadio Hearnon of the first Westerns to write about Japanwill be of great interests to scholars and Japanophiles alike.
Incredible Japan is a crash course in Japanese cultureIt is an introduction to those inimitable aspects of Japan which are necessarily alien to the foreign observer.
The Japanese Abacus & Theory book is easy to follow, and gives the reader step-by-step directions on how to use it correctly while applying it to practical use.