Cultural Region/Japanese
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Japanese Architecture: An Exploration of Elements & Forms
$29.95 Add to cartThick thatched roofs and rough mud plaster walls. An intricately carved wood transom and a precisely woven tatami mat–each element of traditional Japanese architecture tells a story.
In Japanese Arch- Author: Locher, Mira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 4805313285
- Language: English
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Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks: 1680 – 1900
$49.95 Add to cartJapanese woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e, are the most recognizable Japanese art form. Their massive popularity has spread from Japan to be embraced by a worldwide audience. Covering the period from the … [more below]
- Author: Marks, Andreas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 20 2010
- ISBN10: 4805310553
- Language: English
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Tarawa: The Incredible Story of One of World War II’s Bloodiest Battles
$17.99 Add to cartIn the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of that year, the United States waged a bloody campaign on Betio Island… [more below]
- Author: Sherrod, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1620871017
- Language: English
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Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques: A Contemporary Guide to the Ancient Investment Techniques of the Far East, Second Edition
$115.00 Add to cartThe ultimate guide to a critical tool for mastering the financial markets
A longstanding form of technical analysis, Japanese candlestick charts are a dynamic and increasingly popular technical tool- Author: Nison, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0735201811
- Language: English
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The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence Through Leadership Development
$40.00 Add to cartThe Missing Link to Toyota-Style Success–LEAN LEADERSHIP
Winner of the 2012 Shingo Research and Professional Publications Award
“This great book reveals the secret ingredient to lean success: lean lea
- Author: Liker, Jeffrey K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0071780785
- Language: English
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The Magic of Japan: Secret Places and Life-Changing Experiences (with 475 Color Photos)
$18.99 Add to cartA charming collection of quirky insights into Japanese culture.
The Magic of Japan is writer Hector Garcia’s intensely personal account of his fifteen years in Japan. A self-professed “otaku” or Japan- Author: Garcia, Hector
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 4805316527
- Language: English
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Cute Chibi Tarot: Understanding Tarot with the Chibi Universe – 78 Cards and Guidebook
$24.99 Read moreCharming chibis are here to answer your deepest questions–just open this adorably illustrated tarot deck and guide.
Common in manga and anime, chibis are cute characters with short bodies, oversize- Author: Yoai
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- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1631069470
- Language: English
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Japan: A Guide to Traditions, Customs and Etiquette: Kata as the Key to Understanding the Japanese
$12.99 Add to cart“A unique look at a unique culture. If you’re trying to figure the Japanese out, this book provides another important piece of the puzzle.”–Terrie Lloyd, Founder & Publisher, Jap@n Inc.; CEO LINC Me… [more below]
- Author: De Mente, Boye Lafayette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 4805314427
- Language: English
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Everyday Scenes from a Parallel World
$39.95 Read moreEveryday Scenes from a Parallel World is a celebration of the beauty of the scenes and backgrounds in anime and manga. This unusual book turns the spotlight exclusively on the scenes and background il
- Series: Scenes
- Author: International, Pie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 4756249582
- Language: English
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Sony
$19.99 Add to cartNamed one of the best business books of the year (by Fortune and Newsweek), SONY is the “intimate biography of one of the world’s leading electronics giants” (San Francisco Chronicle) as well as one o
- Author: Nathan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0618126945
- Language: English
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Osamu Dazai’s the Setting Sun: The Manga Edition
$14.99 Add to cartA classic of Japanese literature, brought to life in English & manga for the first time!
This is the first manga edition in English of The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai’s classic novel, often considered hi- Series: Tuttle Japanese Classics in Manga
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 4805317612
- Language: English
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Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City’s Most Colorful Neighborhoods
$22.95 Add to cartThis prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist’s warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir.
Florent Chavouet,- Author: Chavouet, Florent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 10 2011
- ISBN10: 4805311371
- Language: English
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The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime
$36.95 Read moreThis graphic-format biography of Osamu Tezuka–Japan’s “God of Manga”–looks at one of the twentieth century’s great creative artists (Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Black Jack). It is also an anecd
- Author: Ban, Toshio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: July 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1611720257
- Language: English
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Rashomon and Other Stories
$9.99 Add to cart“Clear-eyed glimpses of human behavior in the extremities of poverty, stupidity, greed, vanity… Story-telling of an unconventional sort, with most of the substance beneath the shining, enameled surf… [more below]
- Series: Tuttle Classics
- Author: Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 21 2018
- ISBN10: 480531463X
- Language: English
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Silence
$19.00 Read moreShusaku Endo’s New York Times bestselling classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Dr
- Series: Picador Classics
- Author: Endo, Shusaku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 10, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250082277
- Language: English
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The Heron Catchers
$19.95 Add to cart2023 American Writing Awards Finalist 2023 Foreword Indies Awards Finalist
Joiner’s second novel set in the fabled Kanazawa area is an intimate yet understated look at an American who seeks recovery a
- Author: Joiner, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1611720818
- Language: English
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The Tale of Genji: The Arthur Waley Translation of Lady Murasaki’s Masterpiece with a New Foreword by Dennis Washburn
$29.95 Add to cart“What Waley did create is literary art of extraordinary beauty that brings to life in English the world Murasaki Shikibu imagined. The beauty of his art has not dimmed, but like the original text itse… [more below]
- Series: Tuttle Classics
- Author: Shikibu, Murasaki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: March 10 2010
- ISBN10: 4805310812
- Language: English
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Under the Midnight Sun
$47.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed international bestseller Keigo Higashino (The Devotion of Suspect X) comes a sweeping novel in the tradition of Les Miserables and Crime and Punishment. This is the compelling story
- Author: Higashino, Keigo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 125010579X
- Language: English
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Botchan
$16.00 Add to cartOne of Japan’s most treasured novels–new to Penguin Classics
A hilarious tale about a young man’s rebellion against “the system” in a country school, Natsume Soseki’s Botchan has enjoyed a timeless p- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Soseki, Natsume
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 014139188X
- Language: English
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Shipwrecks
$13.95 Add to cartIsaku is a nine-year-old boy living in a remote, desperately poor fishing village on the coast of Japan. His people catch barely enough fish to live on, and so must distill salt to sell to neighboring… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Yoshimura, Akira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0156008351
- Language: English
