Asian Studies

Brings together the study of modern China and Japan for the period prior to the 20th century. The chapters deal with Chinese and Japanese works written in response to events in the other country and give a view of how they saw each other at a time when there were few personal contacts allowed._x005F..

This important book fills the gap in existing literature by employing an explicitly comparative framework for analyzing and evaluating Germany's and Japan's post-Cold War regional foreign policy trajectories. Through a qualitative content analysis of key foreign policy speeches, this book traces and..

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Originally published in 1892 by the Fine Art Society in London and simultaneously in Yokohama, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, this book shows the context and growing interest in the arts and crafts of this newly discovered burgeoning country with such artistry central to its everyday life...

Japan and Okinawa provides an up-to-date, coherent and theoretically informed examination of Okinawa from the perspective of political economy and society...

The text looks at the Dutch influence on Japan during the country's so-called 'closed centuries' when Dutch traders provided the only commerical link between Japan and the West...

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This unique volume comprising writings and memoirs covering the half century since the end of the Pacific War, offers the reader a fascinating and remarkable collection of personal experiences of Japan across a wide spectrum...

This text examines the profound impact Japanese presence has had on Southeast Asia, not only in terms of economic presence, but also in terms of an increasingly visible cultural presence...

This is the first in-depth study of the early trial-and-error experiences of contracting between Japanese and western merchants trading in the Japanese Treaty Ports in the eighteen year period immediately following the opening of the ports...