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Sugihara Chiune
Sugihara Chiune
Shiraishi Masaaki
Translated by Gaynor Sekimori
Sugihara Chiune was a diplomat who saved more than several thousand lives from the Nazis and...
Tales of Plague and Pestilence
Tales of Plague and Pestilence
Sakai Shizu
Translated by Marie Speed
How has disease impacted the evolution of Japan’s culture and society? Sakai Shizu, a leading...
The Tokyo Trial
The Tokyo Trial
Higurashi Yoshinobu
The Tokyo Trial, like the Nuremberg Trial, was unique as a judicial event. Presided over by eleven...
Toward Creation of a New World History
Toward Creation of a New World History
Haneda Masashi
Translated by Noda Makito
Today, as globalization deepens daily and the world becomes increasingly integrated, the time has...
Toward the Abe Statement on the 70th Anniversary of the End of World War II
Toward the Abe Statement on the 70th Anniversary of the End of World War II
Compiled by The Advisory Panel on the History of the 20th Century and on Japan's Role and the World Order in the 21st Century
Translated by Tara Cannon
In 2015 as the world commemorated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the...
Toward the Meiji Revolution
Toward the Meiji Revolution
Karube Tadashi
Translated by David Noble
In 2018, Japan marked the 150th anniversary of the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the...
Traditional Cuisine of the Ryukyu Islands
Traditional Cuisine of the Ryukyu Islands
Takagi Rin
Translated by Deborah Iwabuchi and Enda Kazuko
In recent decades, Okinawan cuisine has earned a place in the Japanese food scene due to its...
Understanding History in Asia
Understanding History in Asia
Hattori Ryuji
Translated by Tara Cannon
Unsung Heroes of Old Japan
Unsung Heroes of Old Japan
Isoda Michifumi
Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter
“I have waited eagerly for the day when Unsung Heroes of Old Japan would be translated into English...
Wasan, the Fascination of Traditional Japanese Mathematics
Wasan, the Fascination of Traditional Japanese Mathematics
Sakurai Susumu
Translated by Emma Ford, with Gaynor Sekimori
Wasan—a unique form of Japanese mathematics—was developed during the Edo period (1603–1868), a time...
Well-Versed
Well-Versed
Ozawa Minoru
Translated by Janine Beichman
Photography by Maeda Shinzō & Akira
This volume of seasonally-arranged poems is a guide to the appreciation and enjoyment of the great...
A Western Pacific Union
A Western Pacific Union
Supervised by Kitaoka Shinichi
Translated by David Noble and Marie Speed
The Cold War ended more than thirty years ago, but the world—and within it, the countries of Asia...