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The Golden Age of JAPANESE OKIMONO, Dr A.M. Kanter’s CollectionBy Laura Bordignon. Antique Collectors’ Club, pages 302. copiously illustrated with colour plates. ISBN 978-1-85149-609-9. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi.
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The Gardens of JapanBy Helena Attlee This is not a guide to Japanese gardens. Nor is it a history of Japanese gardens. It consists of photographs with brief descriptions of selected gardens. The photos are well and artistically taken, but [...] Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi
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The Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281By Stephen Turnbull Illustrated by Richard Hook, Osprey, 2010. 96 pages, copious illustration, ISBN978 1 84603 4565. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi.
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Soul Dance: Selected PoemsBy Takako Arai. Translated by Jeffrey Angles, with Sawako Nakayasu and You Nakai. Mi’Te Press, 2008, 64 pages. ISBN: 978-4-9904416-0-9. Review by Adam House.
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Yasukuni, the War Dead and the Struggle for Japan’s PastBy John Breen (Ed). C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2007, 202 pages, ISBN-10:850659079. Review by Sean Curtin.
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Japan and its worlds: Marius Jansen and the Internationalization of Japanese StudiesJapan and its worlds: Marius Jansen and the Internationalization of Japanese Studies. Edited by Martin Collcut, Kato Mikio and Ronald P. Toby. I House Press, Tokyo, 2007, 299 pages including index, ISBN 978-4-903452-08-1. Review by Ian Nish.
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Conflict and Change: Foreign Ownership and the Japanese FirmBy George Olcott. Cambridge University Press, 2009, 279 pages including index, ISBN 978-0-521-87870-8. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi.
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Japan’s Silk Road Diplomacy – Paving the Road AheadEdited by Christopher Len, Tomohiko Uyama and Tetsuya Hirose Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, and The Silk Road Studies Program (Institute for Security and Development Policy), Washington/Stockholm, 2008, ISBN: 978-91-85937-46-2. Review by Sean Curtin.
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A Doomed Man [運命の人]By Toyoko Yamazaki [山崎豊子] Bungei Shunju, April-June 2009, 4 volumes, each volume is 256 pages, 1524 yen each, volume 1: ISBN 978-4163281100; volume 2: ISBN: 978-4163281209; volume 3: ISBN: 978-4163281308; and volume 4: ISBN: 978-4163281407, Review by Fumiko Halloran.
Films & Series
Gaea Girls Film Screening and Q&AGaea Girls is a film about courage, transformation and dreams in the extraordinary world of Japanese women’s wrestling or joshi puroresu.