Are you an avid manga reader? Or a researcher whose pet topic intersects with contemporary Japan? If you are curious and want to understand Japan better, we have a handy list of books for you as a start. The Nippon Foundation has compiled a set of 100 best English books to understand contemporary Japan from multiple angles. The books were written by experts in their respective fields covering Japanese politics, culture, literature, the arts, and history, and chosen to help non-experts and non-Japanese readers gain a basic understanding about Japan. The Dafoe Library will receive a generous gift of 38 titles from the Foundation and provide all 100 titles in its collection by the end of this year. Please refer to the Foundation web site for...
The postwar emergence of Japan as one of the most economically and technologically advanced nations ...
Książka, w różnych swych postaciach, obecna jest na Archipelagu Japońskim od przeszło 1500 lat. Od p...
none1siThe pdf version is also available.The world is growing faster and closer, leading to increasi...
The purpose of this paper is to detail the contents of the l’Ècole Français d’Èxtrême-Orient (EFEO) ...
This chapter describes how the Penn Libraries began collecting Japanese- and Korean-language comics,...
responsibility for the collections of Japan and Korea. Japan has always been one of the forgotten co...
Guide to resources on Japan and Japanese language and culture available through Oxford Brookes Unive...
This cutting edge collection considers how the Japanese language functions as a key element of Japan...
Drawing on the main arguments of my recent book published in Japanese, Sekai no dokusha ni tsutaeru ...
Long-term residents share their stories of acculturation or thriving in Japan, from enjoyable activi...
There is a lack of graded-reading material available to the novice-level Japanese language learner. ...
In recent years Japan has faced the rapid changes characterizing the post-global world, vis-à-vis th...
The ancient civilization of Japan, with its Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, is also closely ass...
Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, fr...
From the “Japan bashing” era of the 1980s, we have entered another era of “Japan passing,” this time...
The postwar emergence of Japan as one of the most economically and technologically advanced nations ...
Książka, w różnych swych postaciach, obecna jest na Archipelagu Japońskim od przeszło 1500 lat. Od p...
none1siThe pdf version is also available.The world is growing faster and closer, leading to increasi...
The purpose of this paper is to detail the contents of the l’Ècole Français d’Èxtrême-Orient (EFEO) ...
This chapter describes how the Penn Libraries began collecting Japanese- and Korean-language comics,...
responsibility for the collections of Japan and Korea. Japan has always been one of the forgotten co...
Guide to resources on Japan and Japanese language and culture available through Oxford Brookes Unive...
This cutting edge collection considers how the Japanese language functions as a key element of Japan...
Drawing on the main arguments of my recent book published in Japanese, Sekai no dokusha ni tsutaeru ...
Long-term residents share their stories of acculturation or thriving in Japan, from enjoyable activi...
There is a lack of graded-reading material available to the novice-level Japanese language learner. ...
In recent years Japan has faced the rapid changes characterizing the post-global world, vis-à-vis th...
The ancient civilization of Japan, with its Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, is also closely ass...
Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, fr...
From the “Japan bashing” era of the 1980s, we have entered another era of “Japan passing,” this time...
The postwar emergence of Japan as one of the most economically and technologically advanced nations ...
Książka, w różnych swych postaciach, obecna jest na Archipelagu Japońskim od przeszło 1500 lat. Od p...
none1siThe pdf version is also available.The world is growing faster and closer, leading to increasi...
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