Biography

6 August 2010
Shot by Both Sides

Shot by Both Sides

by Meisei Goto, translated by Tom Gill, Counterpoint Berkeley, 2009, 215 pages, ISBN-10: 1582434735

6 August 2010
chichibu

Prince and Princess Chichibu, Two Lives Lived Above and Below the Clouds

Prince and Princess Chichibu, Two Lives Lived Above and Below the Clouds, by Dorothy Britton, Global Oriental 2010, 223 including index, ISBN 978-1-905246-24-3

6 August 2010
soredemobokuhaikinuita

I Survived For All That – A Tale of British POWs (それでもぼくは生きぬいた―日本軍の捕虜になったイギリス兵の物語)

By Hiroko Sherwin (シャーウィン 裕子), Nashinoki-sha, 2009, 244 pages, ISBN-10: 4816609105

1 December 2009
The Great Power Struggle in East Asia, 1944-50

The Great Power Struggle in East Asia, 1944-50, Britain, America and Post-War Rivalry

By Christopher Baxter
In the series Global Conflict and Security Since 1945, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 250 pages including endnotes, bibliography and index, ISBN: 978-0-230-20297-9, £55
Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi

1 November 2009
JAPAN_RISING

Japan Rising: The Iwakura Embassy to the USA and Europe

Compiled by Kunitake Kume, eds. Chushichi Tsuzuki and R. Jules Young; with an introduction by Ian Nish
Cambridge University Press, 2009, 528 pages
Review by Roger Buckley

1 September 2009
JBR Seiken Kotai Kono Kuni o Kaeru

Seiken Kotai – Kono Kuni o Kaeru [政権交代―この国を変える] (Change of Political Power – To Change This Country)

By Katsuya Okada, Kodansha, June, 2008, 253 pages, 1500 yen
Review by Fumiko Halloran

1 September 2009
JBR Hatoyama Yukio to Hatoyama-ke Yondai

Hatoyama Yukio to Hatoyama-ke Yondai, [鳩山由紀夫と鳩山家四代] (Yukio Hatoyama and the Four Generation Hatoyama Family)

By Seiho Mori, Chuko Shinsho La Clef, September, 2009, 186 pages, 720 yen
Review by Fumiko Halloran

1 September 2009
ULTIMATE CRUSH Waseda University Rugby, Leadership and Building the Strongest Winning Team in Japan (Paperback)

Ultimate Crush: Waseda University Rugby, Leadership and Building the Strongest Winning Team in Japan,

By Katsuyuki Kiyomiya, Translated by Ian Ruxton
North Carolina: Lulu Press, 2006, 150 pages
Review by Ian Nish

1 October 2008
Cover Diary of Charles Holme's 1889 Visit to Japan

The Diary of Charles Holme’s 1889 Visit to Japan and North America with Mrs Lasenby Liberty’s Japan: A Pictorial Record

Edited by Toni Huberman, Sonia Ashmore, Yuko Suga
Global Oriental, 2008, 240 pages (including 8 plates and 50 photographs by Lasenby Liberty), hardback £65.00, ISBN-13: 978-1905246397
Review by Dr Jill Raggett

1 October 2008
Cover What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

By Haruki Murakami
Translation by Philip Gabriel, Harvill Secker 2008, 192 pages, hardback £9.99, paperback £7.99, ISBN-10: 1846552206
Review by Mikihiro Maeda

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