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ACCOMPLICES OF SILENCE: The Modern Japanese Novel
ACQUISITION: Art and Ownership in Edo-Period Japan     Details
AFTER THE CRISIS: Hegemony, Technocracy and Government in Southeast Asia      Details
AVATARS OF VENGEANCE: Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition     Details
BETWEEN HILLS AND PLAINS: Power and Practice in Socio-Religious Dynamics among Karen     Details
‘BIG BANG’ IN JAPANESE HIGHER EDUCATION, THE: 2004 Reforms and the Dynamics of Change      Details
BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH METHODS: IBOY in Western Pacific and Asia     Details
BLACK EGGS: Poems     Details
BLUESTOCKINGS OF JAPAN, The: New Woman Essays and Fiction from Seitô, 1911-16     Details
 BUDDHIST POETRY OF THE GREAT KAMO PRIESTESS DAISAIIN SENSHI AND ‘HOSSHIN WAKASHU’, THE     Details
CHILD OF DARKNESS: Yoko and Other Tales     Details
CHRISTIAN CONVERTS AND SOCIAL PROTEST IN MEIJI JAPAN
CLASS STRUCTURE IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN     Details
CLOUDS OVER TIANSHAN: Essays on Social Disturbance in Xinjiang in the 1940s     Details
COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING IN RURAL JAPAN
COMING OUT IN JAPAN     Details
COMMODIFYING MARXISM: The Formation of Modern Thai Radical Culture     Details
CONFLUENCES: Postwar Japan and France     Details
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Quality Control Circles in Japanese Industry     Details
CONVERSATIONS WITH SHOTETSU     Details
CULTURAL HISTORY OF JAPANESE WOMEN'S LANGUAGE, A     Details
DANCES WITH SHEEP: The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki     Details
DAOISM IN CHINA: An Introduction     Details
 DARK PICTURES AND OTHER STORIES     Details
DECIPHERING SHANGHAI 1990-2000     Details
DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE IDIOMS, A      Details
DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE ARTISTS, A: Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Prints, Lacquer      Details
DISLOCATING NATION-STATES     Details
DISPLACEMENT RISKS IN AFRICA     Details
DISTANT ISLE, THE: Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in Honor of Robert H. Brower
ECOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION, HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT: Advancing Asian Paradigms     Details
ECOLOGICAL VIEW OF HISTORY, AN: Japanese Civilization in the World Context     Details
EMPIRE OF MIN, THE: A South China Kingdom of the Tenth Century    Details
 ENGENDERING FAITH: Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan     Details
ESSAYS ON THE MODERN JAPANESE CHURCH: Christianity in Meiji Japan     Details
EUROPE STUDIES CHINA: Papers from an International Conference      Details
EVOLUTION OF THE JAPANESE PAST AND PERFECTIVE SUFFIXES, THE     Details
FAMOUS JAPANESE SWORDSMEN OF THE TWO COURTS PERIOD     Details
FAMOUS JAPANESE SWORDSMEN OF THE WARRING STATES PERIOD     Details
FAREWELL TO NIPPON: Japanese Lifestyle Migrants in Australia     Details
FIGURES OF DESIRE: Wordplay, Spirit Possession, Fantasy, Madness and Mourning in Japanese Noh Plays     Details
FOREIGN MIGRANTS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN     Details
FROM SALVATION TO SPIRITUALITY: Popular Religious Movements in Japan     Details
FUNERAL HOUSES IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS OF VIETNAM     Details
GENDER AND JAPANESE MANAGEMENT      Details
GENDER AND MODERNITY     Details
GENEALOGY OF ‘JAPANESE’ SELF-IMAGES, A     Details
GITANJALI: Offerings of Song and Art      Details
GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN     Details
GLOBALIZATION, CULTURE AND INEQUALITY IN ASIA     Details
HEGEMONY OF HOMOGENEITY: An Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron     Details
HISTORY OF JAPAN’S GOVERNMENT-BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP, A: The Passenger Car Industry     Details
IMAGES OF THE GODS: Khmer Mythology in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand     Details
INDEX OF EARLY CHINESE PAINTERS AND PAINTINGS, AN: T’ang, Sung, Yuan      Details
INDIVIDUAL DIGNITY IN MODERN JAPANESE THOUGHT: The Evolution of the Concept of Jinkaku in Moral and Educational Discourse     Details
INEQUALITY AMID AFFLUENCE: Social Stratification in Japan      Details
INTENTIONAL SOCIAL CHANGE: A Rational Choice Theory      Details
JAPAN - AN ATTEMPT AT INTERPRETATION     Details
JAPAN - FROM PREHISTORY TO MODERN TIMES
JAPAN AND ITS OTHERS     Details
JAPAN ELECTION DATA: The House of Representatives (1947-1990)     Details
JAPAN IN THE WORLD, THE WORLD IN JAPAN: Fifty Years of Japanese Studies at Michigan     Details
JAPANESE ART SIGNATURES: A Handbook and Practical Guide      Details
JAPANESE COMPANIES: Theories and Realities     Details
JAPANESE EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY     Details
JAPANESE MARKS AND SEALS: In Literature and the Arts      Details
JAPANESE NAMES: A Comprehensive Index by Character and Readings      Details
JAPANESE NAMES AND HOW TO READ THEM: A Manual for Arts Collectors and Students      Details
JAPANESE PAINTING AND NATIONAL IDENTITY: Okakura Tenshin and His Circle     Details
JAPANESE PAPERMAKING: Traditions, Tools, Techniques      Details
JAPANESE POLITICS - AN INTRODUCTION     Details
JAPANIMALS: History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life      Details
KAFU - THE SCRIBBLER: The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafu, 1879-1959
KAGERO DIARY, THE     Details
LAYING THE TRACKS: The Impact of Railways on the Thai Economy 1885-1935     Details
LITERARY AND ART THEORIES IN JAPAN
LITERARY PATRONAGE IN LATE MEDIEVAL JAPAN     Details
LIVES OF YOUNG KOREANS IN JAPAN     Details
LOCAL VOICES, NATIONAL ISSUES: The Impact of Local Initiative in Japanese Policy-Making     Details
LONG, LONG AUTUMN NIGHTS: Selected Poems of Oguma Hideo, 1901-1940     Details
LOOKING FOR MONEY: Capitalism and Modernity in an Orang Asli Village     Details
MISHIMA ON STAGE: The Black Lizard & Other Plays     Details
MODALITY AND THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE     Details
MODERN CHINESE SCHOLARS’ ROCKS: A Guide for Collectors     Details
MUSASHINO IN TUSCANY: Japanese Overseas Travel Literature, 1860-1912      Details
MY LIFE - LIVING, LOVING AND FIGHTING     Details
NATIONALISM AND GENDER     Details
NATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY: The Japanese Challenge to Western Academic Hegemony     Details
NEW LEAVES: Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in Honor of Edward Seidensticker     Details
NOH THEATER, THE: Principles and Perception      Details
NOVEL JAPAN: Spaces of Nationhood in Early Meiji Narrative     Details
OBJECTS OF DISCOURSE: Memoirs by Women of Heian Japan      Details
ONE MALAY VILLAGE: Thirty Years of Change and Continuity    Details
OZU’S ANTI-CINEMA     Details
PACING THE VOID: T’ang Approaches to the Stars      Details
PADDY SOIL SCIENCE     Details
PARADISE IN A SEA OF SORROW: Our Minamata Disease
PARS JAPONICA: The First Dutch Expedition to Reach the Shores of Japan     Details
 PARTIES, CANDIDATES, AND VOTERS IN JAPAN: Six Quantitative Studies
PERIPHERAL CENTRE, THE: Essays on Japanese History and Civilization     Details
PERSONALITY IN JAPANESE HISTORY
PHILOSOPHY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE: Japan and Beyond      Details
POEMS OF THE FIVE MOUNTAINS: An Introduction to the Literature of the Zen Monasteries, 2nd Edition     Details
POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF THE TROPICAL FORESTS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, THE     Details
POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
PRACTICAL BUDDHISM AMONG THE THAI-LAO     Details
PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR TEACHERS OF ELEMENTARY JAPANESE, A     Details
PROTOHISTORIC YAMATO     Details
REGENT REDUX: A Life of the Statesman-Schoalr Ichijo Kaneyoshi     Details
RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN NINETEENTH CENTURY JAPAN: A Study of the Southern Kanto Region, Using Late Edo and Early Meiji Gazeteers     Details
RETHINKING SORROW: Revelatory Tales of Late Medieval Japan     Details
RIGHTEOUS CAUSE OR TRAGIC FOLLY: Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry     Details
SCHOOL OF FREEDOM     Details
SEASONS OF SACRED CELEBRATION: Flowers and Poetry from an Imperial Court     Details
 SANSHIRO: A Novel
SEARCH FOR THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN SPEECH, A     Details
SHADOWS ON THE SCREEN: Tanizaki Jun’ichir" on Cinema and "Oriental" Aesthetics      Details
SHANGHAI - A NOVEL     Details
SHUGENDO: Essays on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion     Details
SKETCHES FOR A PORTRAIT OF HANOI     Details
SOCIAL ECOLOGY OF TROPICAL FORESTS     Details
 SOCIAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN, VOL. 1     Details
SOCIAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN, VOL. 2     Details
SOCIAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN, VOL. 3 ISBN      Details
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE RUFOUS VANGA     Details
SOCIOLOGY OF HAPPINESS, A      Details
SONG OF DEATH AND OTHER STORIES, THE
SPIRITS OF ANOTHER SORT: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka     Details
SPLENDOR OF LONGING IN THE TALE OF GENJI
STATE OF WAR: The Violent Order of Fourteenth-Century Japan     Details
STUDENT GUIDE TO JAPANESE SOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES, A     Details
STUDIES IN MODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE: Eassays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan     Details
SUKERO’S DOUBLE IDENTITY: The Dramatic Structure of Edo Kabuki
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES TO AN INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE, PART 1: Lessons 1-15     Details
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES TO AN INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE, PART 2: Lessons 16-30     Details
SURVEY OF JAPANESE COLLECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
TAKEBE AYATARI: A Bunjin Bohemian in Early Modern Japan     Details
TALE OF MATSURA, THE: Fujiwara Teika’s Experiment in Fiction     Details
TALE OF SAIGYO, THE     Details
TALES OF TIMES NOW PAST: Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection
TANIZAKI FEAST, A: The International Symposium in Venice     Details
TANIZAKI IN WESTERN LANGUAGES: A Bibliography of Translations and Studies     Details
TAOISM UNDER THE T’ANG: Religion and Empire During the Golden Age of Chinese History      Details
TATAR WHIRLWIND, THE: A Novel of Seventeenth-Century East Asia     Details
THEATER AS MUSIC: The Buraku Play Mt. Imo and Mt. Se
THREE JEWELS, THE: A Study and Translation of Minamoto Tamenori’s Sanboe     Details
TOKUGAWA IDEOLOGY: Early Recruits, 1570-1680
TRADITIONAL THEATER OF JAPAN     Details
TRANSFORMATIONS OF SENSIBILITY: The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature     Details
TREATISE ON EPISTOLARY STYLE: Joao Rodriguez on the Nobel Art of Writing Japanese Letters     Details
TU WAN’S STONE CATALOGUE OF CLOUDY FOREST: A Commentary and Synopsis      Details
VERMILLION BIRD, THE: T’ang Images of the South     Details
 VICTOR’S JUSTICE: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial
VIETNAM IMAGES: A World of Decent Dreams     Details
VIETNAMESE TRADITIONAL WATER PUPPETRY     Details
VISITING CHINA'S PAST: A Guide to Sites and Resources     Details
VISITING HISTORIC BEIJING: A Guide to Sites and Resources     Details
WANDERING THROUGH VIETNAMESE CULTURE     Details
 WESTERN BOOKS ON CHINA: Published up to 1850      Details
WHEN WE SAY ‘HIROSHIMA’: Selected Poems     Details
WIFE IN MUSASHINO, A      Details
WINDOWS IN THE JAPANESE PAST: Studies in Archaeology and Prehistory     Details
WOMEN AND CLASS IN JAPANESE HISTORY     Details
WRITING AND RENUNCIATION IN MEDIEVAL JAPAN: The Works of the Poet-Priest Kamo no Chomei     Details
YOSANO AKIKO AND THE TALE OF GENJI     Details
YOUTH DEVIANCE IN JAPAN     Details  
ZEN LIFE IN NATURE, A: Muso Soseki in His Garden     Details