First Edition. The first book in Clavell's Asia Saga, a series of novels set in feudal Japan, and a worldwide bestseller that remains popular in the US as it approaches its 50th anniversary. The book was turned into a hugely popular TV miniseries in 1980. This was Clavell's first big.....

First Edition. The book that introduced the game of go to the English-speaking world. Smith's book drew heavily on the articles on the game by Oskar Korschelt, which were only published in a German journal of Far Eastern studies. Korschelt learned the game from Murase Shobo, the best player in.....

This is one of many guides to studying and immigrating to the United States by Katayama Sen published under a variety of similar titles with somewhat different content. Katayama spent a dozen years in the United States, returning to Japan in 1896. He discovered socialism while in America and became.....

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 into Japanese. Translation, with running, is one of his main avocations, something he does for fun.....

First Edition. A history of the United States, published on May 15, 1907, three months to the day following the signing of the Gentlemen's Agreement, which significantly curtailed Japanese immigration to the United States. This entry in the massive Imperial Encyclopedia, which filled hundreds of volumes over two decades, gives.....

First Edition. One of the most influential Meiji-era agricultural works, a philosophical and theoretical (rather than practical) exploration of farming that was reprinted many times. Nitobe studied at an American-run agricultural college in Japan and continued his studies in the US; this book synthesizes American and Japanese ideas about agriculture.....

While not credited by name, this is (apparently) a Japanese translation of J. D. Quakenbos's Elementary History of the United States, offered as a high school textbook during the Meiji era. It is a relatively early account of American history published for a mainstream Japanese audience. This translation omits the.....

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.....

First Edition. A survey of 358 triptychs and 1520 single prints from Kuniyoshi's musha-ye (Warrior Prints). Illustrated with more than 200 reproductions, including 32 color plates. A key work on Kuniyoshi's woodblock prints. 208 pages. 9-3/4 by 12-1/4 inches. First edition (states "First published..." with no additional printings noted). A very good.....

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.....