First Edition. A very nice inscribed first edition of one of the great works of journalism, a moving account of the atom bomb attack on Hiroshima, Japan. New York University's school of journalism ranked Hiroshima as the top work of journalism of the 20th century. Hersey, who had just won.....

First Edition. The first English translation of one of Mishima's last and most personal books, inscribed to the translator of his first novel in English just weeks before his suicide. Sun & Steel is part memoir and part meditation on physical strength. The book also delves into Mishima's lifelong questioning.....

First edition. A presentation copy of this survey of the work of the great Japanese architect. This book is compiled from works published in Japanese, including Reality and Creation, Technology and Humanity, and Architecture and the City. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white halftone photographs accompanied by Tange's annotations in English, French.....

First Edition. A little known Meiji-era novel narrated by a young Japanese immigrant in the United States. The narrator seems to have come from the class of poor young people with knowledge of the modern world but little chance of advancement in tradition-bound Japan. He offers opinions and philosophical musings.....

First Edition. A very scarce wartime history of the Japanese in California that argues that the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans was a symptom of the same pervasive anti-Japanese attitudes among Americans that had contributed to the Second World War. The author, according to Yuji Ichioka writing in Before.....

First Edition. A privately printed version of the diary kept by Otani Kahyoe, the president of the Japan Central Tea Traders' Association. "Mr. Otani visited America and Europe in 1899–1900, when he represented both the Tokyo and Yokohama Chambers of Commerce at the Philadelphia Commercial Convention" (William Harrison Ukers, All.....

First Edition. A travelog of the author's trip to the United States to visit the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Sugishita went on to be a banker and member of the House of Representatives in Japan. This is a scarce 19th century Japanese view of the United States. [6], [3].....

First Edition. An examination of the likelihood and potential shape of a war in the Pacific between Japan and the United States, with an emphasis on naval and aerial battles. Kawashima focuses more on the Philippines and Guam and less over Hawaii than some writers on the subject. He also.....

A book tracing the history of US-Japanese relations focusing on the growth of anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States and the legal and diplomatic efforts to exclude and discriminate against Japanese immigrants. The author then turns to the growing possibility of a war in the Pacific between the two countries.....

First Edition. In addition to being a prolific novelist, Murakami has done extensive translation work, including bringing many American writers like Raymond Carver, Raymond Chandler, Ursula LeGuin, Truman Capote, J. D. Salinger, and Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby) into Japanese. Translation, with running, is one of his main avocations, something he.....

First Edition. "A study of the American character based for the most part upon Henry Van Dyke's The Spirit of America (1910) and Hugo Munsterberg's The Americans (1908) by the author who spent 8 years in America. Discusses the immigration question and the exclusion movement in Chapter 8 which is.....

First Edition. An oversized book reproducing examples of Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo artwork from throughout his then twenty-year career. Many of the drawings are previously unpublished. With a 32-page color section of Sakai's paintings, many of which are cover illustrations. Usagi Yojimbo, an anthropomorphic samurai saga with a rabbit as.....

A romantic-style head-and-shoulders portrait of the writer Yei Theodora Ozaki (1870–1932), well executed with light just falling on her profile, outlining her face against the dark background. Ozaki is wearing a white Victorian gown with frilly sleeves and a white rose corsage on the gown and in her hair. The.....