Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies (Series)

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Tales of Times Now Past

Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection

By Marian Ury
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Fiction, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

Christian Converts and Social Protests in Meiji Japan

By Irwin Scheiner
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

Addresses the reasons for samurai warriors' turn to Christianity and the nature of conversion

Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow

Our Minamata Disease

By Michiko Ishimure
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

A moving account of Minamata disease victims’ struggle for recognition and support in the years after mercury pollution was discovered in a group of fishing villages

The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji

By Norma Field
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Gender Studies, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

A study of the heroines and heroes in one of the world's literary masterpieces.

Victors’ Justice

The Tokyo War Crimes Trial

By Richard Minear
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

The first full-length treatment of the international war crimes tribunal held in Tokyo, 1946–48.

Government and Local Power in Japan, 500-1700

A Study Based on Bizen Province

By John Hall
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Political Science, Criminology, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

An influential interpretation of premodern Japanese political and institutional history.

Japan in Crisis

Essays on Taisho Democracy

Edited by Bernard Silberman, H. Harootunian, and Harry Harootunian
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Political Science, Criminology, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

A classic study of culture and politics in early twentieth-century Japan.

Tokugawa Ideology

Early Constructs, 1570-1680

By Herman Ooms
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

The classic study of seventeenth-century Japan.

Accomplices of Silence

The Modern Japanese Novel

By Masao Miyoshi
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

A comprehensive critical discussion of the Japanese novel and its distinctiveness from Western literature.

They Came to Japan

An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543-1640

Edited by Michael Cooper
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

A collection of European reports on Japan

Personality in Japanese History

Edited by Albert Craig, Donald H. Shively, and Donald Shively
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Psychology, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

A series of biographical sketches that portray the interaction of individual culturally induced motivation and social history.   

Research in Japanese Sources

A Guide

By Herschel Webb
Subjects: Reference, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

An extremely useful handbook for the trickier issues facing scholars, researchers, and students of Japan

The Economic Development of Japan

Growth and Structural Change, 1868-1938

By William Lockwood
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Sociology, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

A substantial contribution to the study of Japan's extraordinary economic expansion since the Meiji Restoration

Education in Tokugawa Japan

By R. Dore
Subjects: Education, Teacher Issues, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

A detailed and insightful examination of Tokugawa period education

Okagami, The Great Mirror

Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027) and His Times

By Helen McCullough
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

A historical tale immortalizing the successes of a leading political figure of the Heian period

Literary and Art Theories in Japan

By Makoto Ueda
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Art, Photography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

A critical examination of Japanese literary and art theories.

Japan

From Prehistory to Modern Times

By John Hall
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

Traces the principal threads of Japan's political and cultural life from early times through the mid-twentieth century.

Kafu the Scribbler

The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafu, 1897–1959

By Edward Seidensticker
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Biography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

A hybrid of critical biography and translation of Nagai Kafū’s work

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