Richly laced with historical detail, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century Japan.

This is a detailed biography of Japan's Postwar prime minister. John Dower is one of the preminent historians of modern Japan.

The author Kohshyu Yoshida, who acted with Tom Cruise but also was a consultant on the film, He is the great-great-grandson of a 19th century Samurai Warrior, one of the last of his kind.

The work of George Kennan in making political stability and economic recovery the top goals of the United States became critical in the face of the developing Cold War.

These fine works are drawn from both public and private collections, most notably The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Toledo Museum of Art, Margaret and Eugene Skibbe (Minneapolis), the Tokyo National Museum, The Fukuoka Art Museum, and ...

Yoshida Kenko (c. 1283-1352) was a Buddhist priest, a reclusive scholar and poet who had ties to the aristocracy of medieval Japan.