Tense and Aspect in Modern Colloquial Japanese
This work lays the foundation for a systematization of aspectual categories on the basis of realized versus unrealized rather than completive and incompletive categories.
- Copyright year: 1983
A Heart at Leisure from Itself
Caroline Macdonald of Japan
This book throws light on Japanese-Canadian relations in the first few decades of this century.
- Copyright year: 1997
Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945
The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu
This is the first comprehensive study of modern Japanese historians and their relationship to nationalism and how they interpreted ancient myths of their origins.
- Copyright year: 1998
The Mountain Is Moving
Japanese Women's Lives
The Mountain Is Moving describes postwar Japanese society and the roles that women are expected to play within it.
- Copyright year: 1999
Forestry and the Forest Industry in Japan
Representing the work of distinguished Japanese scholars, this is the first comprehensive English-language overview of forestry, forest management, and the forest products industry in Japan.
- Copyright year: 2002
Japan at the Millennium
Joining Past and Future
A critical, multi-disciplinary study of economics, politics, society and culture, this collection of essays examines the concepts of “change” and “continuity” in contemporary Japan.
- Copyright year: 2003
Dominion and the Rising Sun
Canada Encounters Japan, 1929-1941
- Copyright year: 2004
Images in Asian Religions
Text and Contexts
A comprehensive and balanced look at the role of images in Asian religions, which examines aspects of the reception of image worship that have only begun to be studied.
- Copyright year: 2004
Japan's Modern Prophet
Uchimura Kanzô, 1861-1930
Charts the introduction of Christianity to Japan through the life of Uchimura Kanzô, was one of Japan’s foremost thinkers, whose ideas influenced contemporary novelists, statesmen, reformers, and religious leaders.
- Copyright year: 2005
Resisting Manchukuo
Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation
- Copyright year: 2007
Japan's Emergence as a Modern State - 60th anniv. ed.
Political and Economic Problems of the Meiji Period
"As provocative a touchstone as we will ever have for understanding the early encounter of Western historians with Japan's emergence as a modern state." - Jown Dower
- Copyright year: 2000
Contradictory Impulses
Canada and Japan in the Twentieth Century
Contradictory Impulses is a comprehensive study of the social, political, and economic interactions between Canada and Japan from the late nineteenth century until today.
- Copyright year: 2008
American Missionaries, Christian Oyatoi, and Japan, 1859-73
Investigates the impact of American Protestant missions on modern Japan and Japanese-American relations.
- Copyright year: 2009
Reconstructing Kobe
The Geography of Crisis and Opportunity
Explores the decade-long challenge to reconstruct Kobe after the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995.
- Copyright year: 2010
Reforming Japan
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji Period
Challenges received notions about women’s political involvement and engagement with the state in Meiji Japan by exploring the activism of members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.
- Copyright year: 2010
Xavier's Legacies
Catholicism in Modern Japanese Culture
By exposing Catholicism’s long-term influence in Japan, this volume disrupts conventional assumptions about tradition, modernity, and Christianity in the East and the West.
- Copyright year: 2011
Principles of Reiki
Revised Edition
This concise introduction covers the history and spiritual principles of Reiki, an ancient Japanese healing system based on channelling spiritual energy through the hands.
- Copyright year: 2013
Brewed in Japan
The Evolution of the Japanese Beer Industry
This book explores the many challenges that faced the early production and sale of beer in Japan, including its evolution from a uniquely Western beverage into a thoroughly domestic Japanese commodity by the post-Second World War era.
- Copyright year: 2013