Japanese Studies Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. An Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism

   With especial Reference to Chinese and Japanese Phases

   By William McGovern

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   William Montgomery McGovern’s Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism was one of the first books on Mahayana Buddhism written for a Western audience. It predates influential English language overviews of Buddhism by D. T. Suzuki, A. Watts, and W. Rahula. The author was born in New York City in 1897 and...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. An Elementary Grammar of the Japanese Language

   With Easy Progressive Exercises

   By Tatui Baba

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   When originally published in 1873 one of the aims was to protest against an idea that the Japanese language was very imperfect, and therefore it should be exterminated! The second was to give a general idea of the Japanese language as it is spoken. ...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Banking Policy in Japan

   American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation

   By William Tsutsui

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   The unique Japanese banking system has contributed greatly to Japan’s post-war economic advance by investing aggressively in industry and by supporting close government-business relations. The banking sector might not have come to assume such a significant role, however, had American efforts to...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. British Factory Japanese Factory

   The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial Relations

   By Ronald Dore

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   The Japanese way of work is notoriously ‘different’. But is it Japan or Britain which is the odd man out? When originally published this was the first book to explore the real differences, through a point-by-point comparison of two Japanese factories with two British ones making similar products....

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Broadcasting in Japan

   Case-studies on Broadcasting Systems

   Edited by Masami Ito

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   Japan has developed what is arguably the most sophisticated and the most democratic broadcasting system in the world. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1st September 1923, with its devastation and confusion drove home in its appalling way the importance of being able to broadcast immediate information...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. Black Star Over Japan

   Rising Forces of Militarism

   By Albert Axelbank

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   The Japanese are the only people in the world who have experienced the horror of nuclear weapons with their own flesh. Atomic holocaust was followed by American occupation and the American-inspired, postwar Japanese ‘Peace Constitution’ which explicitly outlawed Japanese military forces and the use...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. The Cultural Transition

   Human Experience and Social Transformation in the Third World and Japan

   Edited by Merry I White, Susan Pollak

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   This volume makes available a wide variety of cultural perspectives on education and on economic and social progress. Contributors focus on three main questions, the answers to which are vital for understanding the needs of both national policy and personal fulfilment in widely differing cultures....

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. The Emperor's Adviser

   Saionji Kinmochi and Pre-War Japanese Politics

   By Lesley Connors

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   Saionji Kinmochi was an aristocrat, a scholar and a progressive liberal politician who twice occupied the highest political office in the nation and who, during three decades, as adviser to three Emperors, coordinated and directed Japanese politics. His long life encompassed the emergence of the...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
9. Direct Foreign Investment

   A Japanese Model of Multi-National Business Operations

   By Kyoshi Kojima

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   Direct foreign investment and the activities of multinational corporations are new dynamic elements in the international economy. This book identifies, theoretically and practically, a Japanese model of multinational business operations which has characteristics differing from the American or "...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. The Phonetics of Japanese Language

    With Reference to Japanese Script

    By P Suski

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    This book gives true characters of Japanese speech sounds in reference to European speech sounds. When it was first published in 1931, it was the first book of its kind. There are only 5 Japanese vowel elements as opposed to 18 in English, 13 in French and 8 in German. There are 15 Japanese...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge