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From the Emmy Award-winning Squid Game to streaming sensations like The Glory and Crash Landing on You, Korean televisio......more

Japanese Shinto is the simple belief that the divine dwells in all things around us. Shinto: The Japanese World of Kami ......more

Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payl......more

For decades, the US military has been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances. Service members, their fam......more

Today, Americans are some of the world’s biggest consumers of black teas; in Japan, green tea, especially sencha, is pre......more

Nitobe wrote a great deal. He was the author of numerous works, both for academics and the general public (see below). N......more

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this engaging text provides a concise history of Korea from the beginning of......more

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this comprehensive and balanced history of modern Korea explores the social,......more

South Korea’s rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) t......more

Japan’s Holocaust is a comprehensive exploration of Japan’s mass murder and sexual crimes during the Pacific and Asian W......more

In The Geography of Injustice, Barak Kushner argues that the war crimes tribunals in East Asia formed and cemented natio......more

Using diary entries, interviews and first-hand accounts, this vivid narrative brings to life the struggle in the air ove......more

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this comprehensive and balanced history of modern Korea explores the social,......more

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this engaging text provides a concise history of Korea from the beginning of......more

In this insightful book, the author examines the exploitation that Korea endured during the period of Japanese colonial ......more

Ensuring military access to the territory of allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific in the event of a future conflict w......more

First published in 1983, Shiguéhiko Hasumi’s Directed by Yasujirō Ozu has become one of the most influential books on ci......more

Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905-1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered acce......more

"In this immersive, erudite memoir, Margaret Juhae Lee unspools her long- buried family history; centrally, her grandfat......more

The Russian Army and the Japanese War, Volume. 1; Being Historical and Critical Comments on the Military Policy and Powe......more

This book bridges the gap between historical research on Japan and the field of childhood history by writing children an......more

Japan is a place where powerful earthquakes have occurred more frequently and have caused more harm in the modern era th......more

In tracing the history of U.S./Korea encounters, this book stresses that as America opened a Pandora Box with an initial......more

Kyokutei Bakin’s Nansō Satomi Hakkenden is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai s......more

Kyokutei Bakin’s Nansō Satomi Hakkenden is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai s......more

Key U.S. allies are looking at the war in Ukraine to draw lessons for their security planning, a trend that has opened n......more

This book explores the trial of over 600 students arrested at the University of Tokyo in 1969 after thousands of riot po......more

Are the 1930s a "missing link" in the study of Japanese American history? Yasuo Sakata, the foremost historian of Japane......more

Embark on an Unparalleled Journey Through the Rich Tapestry of Eastern Civilization! Discover the Cradle of Intellectual......more

When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North Korea largely recount a grand ep......more

When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North Korea largely recount a grand ep......more

In Waiting for the Cool Moon Wendy Matsumura interrogates the erasure of colonial violence at the heart of Japanese nati......more

This book documents Japan’s psychological deterioration caused by its defeat in August 1945. Also, Japan’s traumatic tra......more

For hundreds of years until the 1900s, in today’s China, Japan, North and South Korea, and Vietnam, literati of Classica......more

This book focuses on the broad concept of ’controversy’ and issues pertaining to the translation of politically and hist......more

Japanese culture, way of life, and other aspects of the society draw in a lot of interest from folks all over the world,......more

In the sixteenth century, members of the Ouchi family were kings in all but name in much of Japan. Immensely wealthy, th......more

During World War II, the Japanese military extended Japan’s civilian licensing regime for domestic brothels to those nex......more

In Selling the Future, Ryan Moran explains how the life insurance industry in Japan exploited its association with mutua......more

’When you attain the Way of strategy, there will not be one thing you cannot see.’ - Miyamoto Musashi. Book of Five Ring......more

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this comprehensive text surveys Korean history from Neolithic times to the p......more

This bookdiscloses the history of relations among members of the Quakers of Philadelphia and Japanese intellectuals, edu......more

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this comprehensive text surveys Korean history from Neolithic times to the p......more

Focusing on the ancient, medieval, and early-modern eras, this collection considers the beginnings of Sino-Japanese Rela......more

A critical introduction to how the Nagasaki atomic bombing has been remembered, especially in contrast to that of Hirosh......more

At the close of the 19th century, Japan remained a mysterious, isolated land to much of the Western world. In 1889, Gree......more

"Unbeaten Tracks in Japan" by Isabella L. Bird is a captivating travelogue that takes readers on a remarkable journey th......more

Women in Japanese Studies: Memoirs from a Trailblazing Generation brings together trailblazing women scholars from diver......more

How does a small provincial city in southern Japan become the site of a world-famous wheelchair marathon that has been a......more

This book illuminates the processes by which industrial manufacturing organizations in Japan conducted collective action......more

In the aftermath of the religious crisis triggered by the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church set out to conquer......more

Japanese swords were designed as weapons, but Japanese swordsmiths imbued grace and beauty into the blades with superior......more

Kawai Koume (1804-1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking samu......more

"Korea and Her Neighbors" is a travelogue written by Isabella Lucy Bird, a renowned Victorian-era explorer and writer. P......more

The captivating story of the Ryukyu Islands, located to the south of the main Japanese islands, covers the rise and fall......more

Jews in Japan: Presence and Perception. Antisemitism, Philosemitism and International Relations is a study on the histor......more

Scholarship on Japan’s development from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century has, perhaps quite un......more

This book investigates the politics embedded in the Korean-language textbooks utilised between 1895 and 2019, within the......more

Bailey describes how the Sea of Okhotsk area became integrated into a world system of economic and cultural ties between......more

As the North Korean nuclear weapon threat has grown, many in the Republic of Korea (ROK) do not feel assured by the U.S.......more

Isabella Bird’s 1878 expedition through Japan, chronicled in ’Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, ’ immerses readers in an extraor......more

This major new reference work presents an accessible and innovative survey of the latest developments in the study of ea......more

In Archaism and Actuality eminent Marxist historian Harry Harootunian explores the formation of capitalism and fascism i......more

In Archaism and Actuality eminent Marxist historian Harry Harootunian explores the formation of capitalism and fascism i......more

In this study, Ian Reader presents new insights into the relationship between religion and tourism more generally and in......more

This book is your ultimate guide to Japan’s scariest creatures! Yokai come in every imaginable shape and form--from frig......more

This book tackles the question of border control in and around imperial Japan in the first half of the twentieth century......more

Japanese Myths is an accessible, entertaining, and highly informative exploration of everything from the kami holy spiri......more

Comprehensive examination of the goals, strategies, and motives of the six parties involved in North Korea denuclearizat......more

South Korea has the most remarkable of histories. Born from the ashes of colonialism, partition and a devastating war, b......more

Meet cat demons, skeletal ghosts, and the nine-tailed kitsune in this brilliant and beautifully illustrated volume of gh......more

Edo-period Japan was a golden age for commercial literature. A host of new narrative genres cast their gaze across the s......more

Shibata Renzaburō and the Reinvention of Modernism in Postwar Japanese Popular Literature explores the life and work of ......more

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Japanese baseball, the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) has published......more