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South Korea 1957. Sukey, a promising graduate, falls in love with Kwon, who confesses that he has been a North Korean spy. It is four years since the Korean War ended in a cease-fire. Fighting is suspended. Hostility and enmity towards the North the social norm. Anti-spy campaigns, street and hotel searches, arrests of any suspect are the norm.

This work records a dialogue between two eminent Japanese scholars - a political historian and a political scientist - regarding Japan's modern political history. It draws disturbing parallels between the 1930s and the recent policy trajectory of the Abe government, in which relations with Japan's immediate neighbours have seriously deteriorated.

Witty, learned excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as revealed by works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Oliver Goldsmith and Henry Fielding. Glorious insights and observations provided by author's life experience in diplomacy. A rich, fascinating mix of literary idiom, theatre of the absurd, comic elements of the human condition.

A unique take on modern life in Tokyo. A Japan of trains, every day to and fro, carriage scenes and theatre, vistas from the window, advertising posters. To be savoured through the Odakyu line. Pitched as creative text and line-graphics, Tokyo Commute offers on-track and off-track observations. Poetics of Japanese routine and etiquette.

Olonkho is the general name for the entire Yakut heroic epic including 'Nurgun Botur the Swift' - some 36,000 lines of verse. It has an ancient origin dating back to when the ancestors of the present-day Yakut peoples lived on their former homeland and closely communicated with the Turkic and Mongolian peoples living in the Altay and Sayan regions.

Written by the pen of a high-ranking swordsman who has immersed himself in the warrior traditions of old Japan for over fifty years and author of several books on Samurai culture and its traditions, here are some absorbing short tales supported by the author's own illustrations that will take the reader back to both ancient and medieval Japan.

Torii Enshin was the son of a high-ranking warrior in the late-fifteenth century and a skilled swordsman. He was disturbed at the sad lives of the common people and became a priest. He intended to devote his life to healing the poor suffering everywhere in war-torn Japan. Then found himself reluctantly having to use his samurai skills once again.

Beautifully told, deeply moving, poignant letter of loss, also celebration of the life of a loved one through allegory, music, poetry and personal records. Two lovers, their lives in marriage and parenthood, a diplomatic career in different parts of the world. Open to offer an array of inspirational thoughts for anyone facing loss and bereavement.

In 1862, a British merchant was killed by samurai at Namamugi, a quiet village near Yokohama. One year later, a British fleet bombarded Kagoshima to extract reparations, reducing much of this south-western city to ash. This captivating re-telling, locates the story firmly within the wider context of British imperial expansion in East Asia.

Incorporating over 250 illustrations, this is the first comprehensive study in English of French artist and caricaturist George Ferdinand Bigot (1860-1927) who, during the last two decades of the nineteenth century, was renowned in Japan but barely known in his own country. Even today, examples of his cartoons appear in Japanese school textbooks.

An accomplished linguist and writer, A.B. Mitford was the outstanding chronicler of the Meiji Restoration, complementing the writings of his contemporary Ernest Satow. This book will be of particular interest to students and readers of Japanese history, as well as readers of nineteenth-century biography in general.

In A History of Manchuria, Ian Nish describes the turbulent times which the three Northeastern Provinces of China experienced in the last two centuries. The site of three serious wars in 1894, 1904 and 1919, the territory rarely enjoyed peace though its economy progressed because of the building of arterial railways.

Here is a cri de coeur from almost the last survivor of post-war European sociologists and scholars of Japanese Studies. After six decades following developments in Japanese society, economy and culture - he describes the evolution of his cognitive and evaluative/emotional perceptions of Japan, and why he can no longer be a Japanophile.

Shanghai after Pearl Harbor. Eiko Kishimoto, 20, London-educated Japanese housewife, settles into a privileged existence in the French Concession as a member of the Occupying Power. Her days are filled with high society meals, race course and night club visits and open-air concerts, in the ebullient and cosmopolitan society that is Shanghai.

John Pilcher's appointment as HM Ambassador to Japan in 1967, three years after the Tokyo Olympics, was both judicious and enlightened. His role was to be that of a bridge-builder between Japan and Britain after the early post-war years of disenchantment, distrust and detachment that had earlier marked the relationship between the two countries.

First study published in English. An intractable, divisive social problem with roots in pre-history, the ongoing discrimination against Dowa communities (Buraku). Identified with 'unclean' work linked to specific occupations, their resulting marginalization and isolation within society as a whole remains a veiled yet contested issue.

A mini memoir, plus thirty journal papers and scholarly essays, thematically structured under: Media, Society, Culture and Environment, Democracy, Government and Nationalism, and a selection from his portfolio of book reviews. This offers valuable access to the scholarship of Huffman that both complements and enhances existing published works.

Utilizes contemporary English-language primary material in order to illustrate how authors from both Asia and the West responded to events as they happened. This study brings together books, pamphlets and journal articles with a view to widening debate and underlining the diversity of opinion that was available to contemporary audiences in Asia and beyond.