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This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that o...

Japanese animation is at the nexus of an international multimedia industry worth over $23.6 billion a year, linked to everything from manga to comp...

Japanese animation is at the nexus of an international multimedia industry worth over $23.6 billion a year, linked to everything from manga to comp...

A lucid history of the rise and fall of militarism in Japan New York Journal of BooksJapan at War in the Pacific recounts the dramatic story of Jap...

'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern cuisine is the delici...

Ever had the feeling youre going round in one big circle? Its like I cant stop recycling my ex-boyfriends. Ten years back and forth between a trio ...

The sect was said to harbour dark designs to overthrow the government. Its teachers used a dead language that was impenetrable to all but the inn...

A new translation for the 21st century.The Art of War by Sun Tzu is one of the most influential political and business books of our era. This gatew...

How has Japan become a global superpower and what does the future look like for it? There was a time in the 1980s when, if the media were to be bel...

'If I had to pick a single general martial arts history book in English, I would recommend A Brief History of the Martial Arts by Dr Jonathan Cleme...

Togo Heihachiro (1848-1934) was born into a feudal society that had lived in seclusion for 250 years. As a teenage samurai, he witnessed the destru...

Tokyo, which in Japanese means the Eastern Capital, has only enjoyed that name and status for 150 years. Until the middle of the nineteenth century...

The Silk Road is a route from the edges of the European world to the central plains of China. For thousands of years, its history has been a travel...

His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authorit...

A comprehensive, yet entertaining look at China's history through a modern lens. For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. ...