Acclaimed Japanese Books in Translation 2020 Acclaimed Japanese Books in Translation
Acclaimed Japanese books in translation 2020 Acclaimed Japanese books in translation
JAPAN LIBRARY is a collection of specially selected Japanese works in English, providing a broad range of titles from the vast canon of nonfiction—politics, foreign policy, social sciences, culture, phi- losophy, science and technology, and more. We strive to provide the deft translations and world- wide distribution needed to make the best of these works more accessible to a wider audience. We believe these works provide a useful start in fostering mutual discussion and understanding, ultimately contributing towards the enrichment of a universal, global knowledge.
POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SCIENCE History, Memory, and The Japan-US Alliance Politics in Postwar Japan of Hope Edited by IOKIBE Kaoru, KOMIYA Kazuo, Asia-Pacific Maritime Security HOSOYA Yuichi, MIYAGI Taizo, and the Maritime Security Asia-Pacific Edited by Nakasone Peace Institute Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research’s Asia-Pacific Maritime Security edited by Supervised by KITAOKA Shinichi and supervised edited
Nakasone Peace Institute by
Nakasone Peace Institute
Political and Diplomatic Review Project by
KITAOKA Shinichi and KUBO Fumiaki supervised by KUBO Fumiaki KITAOKA Shinichi and KUBO Fumiaki
Memories can be shared—or contested. The security of the Asia-Pacific region is at an important turning point as China’s Japan and Korea share centuries of translated by Charles Stewart and ANAI Ikuo intertwined history, the nature of which intensifying maritime activities cause continues to be disputed. This book growing instability. With the existing *Purchase at https://www. Price: Hardcover ¥3,200 +tax rienner.com/ explores Japan’s historical narratives order of the region under threat, the from 1946 to the present and their impact ISBN 978-4-86658-138-5 Japan-US alliance is an “alliance of on the evolution of both domestic politics hope” for peace and prosperity. and diplomatic relations. This book is a This book analyzes that alliance and rich contribution to our understanding discusses its future direction from the of Japanese politics and the far- perspective of maintaining maritime reaching consequences of the historical security in the region. Lynne Rienner Publishers narratives that we embrace. Iokibe The Era of Great Disasters examines modern disaster response in Japan, from the changing earthquake preparations and regulations, to imme- HISTORY HISTORY diate emergency procedures from the national, prefectural, and city levels, and finally the evolving efforts of rebuilding and preparing for the next great disaster in the hopes of minimizing their tragic effects. This book focuses on three major earthquakes from Japan’s modern THE ERA OF history. The first is the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake, which struck the capital region. The second is the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, affecting the area between Kobe and Osaka. The third is the 2011 Great GREAT DISASTERS ERA OF GREAT THE GREAT DISASTERS The Era of Great Disasters Remnants of Days Past East Japan Earthquake, the magnitude 9.0 quake that struck off the Pacific coast of the Tōhoku region, causing a devastating tsunami and the nuclear accident. While the events of (and around) each of these earthquakes are unique, Professor Iokibe brings his deep expertise and JAPAN AND ITS THREE personal experience to each disaster, unveiling not only the disasters Japan and Its Three Major Earthquakes A Journey through Old Japan themselves but the humanity underneath. In each case, he gives atten- tion and gratitude to those who labored to save lives and restore the MAJOR EARTHQUAKES communities affected, from the individuals on the scene to government officials and military personnel and emergency responders, in hope that we might learn from the past and move forward with greater wisdom, IOKIBE Makoto WATANABE Kyoji knowledge, and common purpose.
IOKIBE Makoto is Chancellor of the University of Hyogo and President of the Hyogo Earthquake Memorial 21st Century Research Institute. He is also Professor Emeritus of Japanese political and diplo- Forword by YAMAZAKI Masakazu Remnants matic history, Kobe University and Former President of the National Defense Academy of Japan. After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, of Professor Iokibe was appointed Chairperson of the Reconstruction A Journey Design Council in Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake, a through Remnants of Days Past is an epic government-established advisory panel of scholars and experts for for- Old Japan mulating governmental reconstruction guidelines. Following the 2016 Prof. Iokibe examines modern disaster Days Pa s t Kumamoto Earthquake, he served as Chairperson of the Expert Group for Reconstruction and Recovery from the Kumamoto Earthquake. journey into the age of Tokugawa rule Among his many publications, his volume Nichibeikankeishi (Yuhikaku, A Journey through Old Japan 2008) has recently been translated by the Japan Library and published response in Japan and the evolving as “The History of US-Japan Relations: From Perry to the Present” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). and the Edo period, when the civilization efforts of rebuilding, from earthquake of “Old Japan” was still visible before Watanabe Kyoji Also available as an e-book.
POPULATION MERCHANTS OHMI JAPAN’S and theJAPANESE Population and THE STORY OF The Story of ECONOMY the Japanese Economy JAPAN’S Japan’s Ohmi Merchants Longevity, Innovation, and Economic Growth Longevity, Innovation, and Economic Growth OHMI The Precept of Sanpo-yoshi YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi MERCHANTS Translated by Charles Stewart YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi The Precept of Sanpo-yoshi SUENAGA Kunitoshi Kunitoshi Suenaga Translated by Larry Greenberg YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi
In light of Japan’s shrinking population, Suenaga Kunitoshi Ohmi merchants can be considered the decreasing work force, expanding fiscal source of Japanese-style management. deficit, and rural regions facing a crisis The key concepts they developed of disappearance, isn’t the decline of from their base of operations at a the nation inevitable? The answer from vital interchange connecting Kyoto Price: Hardcover ¥2,500 +tax economics is a resounding “No!” The Price: Hardcover ¥3,400 +tax with eastern Japan underpinned the ISBN 978-4-86658-056-2 key to economic growth is innovation, ISBN 978-4-86658-057-9 success of Japanese corporations for and the fact that Japan is one of the generations. Inspirational and practical, world’s leading “longevity societies” is this book contains useful ideas and precisely what poses an opportunity. methods that have helped Japanese This book sweeps away the “population corporations and individuals achieve decline pessimism” that has spread success for generations. throughout Japan and approaches the real issues of the Japanese economy.
SCIENCE Lost in Evolution SCIENCE Lost in Evolution How Human Is Human? Exploring Humanity’s Path in Asia Lost in Evolution
The View from Robotics Research Hiroto Kawabata Exploring Humanity’s Path in Asia
technical advisor Yousuke Kaifu
translated by Dana Lewis ISHIGURO Hiroshi Exploring Humanity’s Path in Asia KAWABATA Hiroto Technical advisor KAIFU Yousuke Dr. Ishiguro presents an overview Societies may wrestle with such
of androids he created, along with Hiroto Kawabata insignificant differences as skin episodes and difficulties encountered color, yet Homo sapiens are broadly during their development. Unlike homogeneous. We’re all basically the industrial robots, these androids are same, and we’re the only human species designed to provide new tools for human alive. Yet it has not always been that interaction and communication. Users way. Species such as the Peking Man Price: Hardcover ¥2,800 +tax can project their voice and movements Price: Hardcover ¥2,800 +tax and the Cro-Magnons lived eons ago. ISBN 978-4-86658-137-8 remotely over the Internet, giving a ISBN 978-4-86658-133-0 Who were they and where did they live? sense of presence that is impossible How is it that only Homo sapiens remain? through technologies such as video This work explores these questions with conferencing. These androids represent an unequaled focus on events in Asia, a first step toward telepresence providing new information and insights, technologies so far encountered only in and a thoughtful look at humanity’s science fiction. evolutionary background.
BIOGRAPHY CULTURE The Legacy of Kano Jigoro Flowers, Birds, Wind, Judo and Education and Moon Edited by The Committee for the The Phenomenology of Nature Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of in Japanese Culture the Birth of Jigoro Kano MATSUOKA Seigo This book explores the association of KANÔ Jigorô, the founder of judo, lived Japanese culture and nature using ten life according to his own words— motifs as lenses on aspects of Japanese seiryoku zen’yô and jita kyôei—the best culture. It examines how Japanese practical use of one’s energies and concepts of time, interval, and otherness putting one’s efforts to good use for the Price: Hardcover ¥3,000 +tax Price: Hardcover ¥3,400 +tax overlap with how quantum physics and benefit of both oneself and society. This relativity theory grapple with issues ISBN 978-4-86658-136-1 ISBN 978-4-86658-139-2 biography reveals how Kanô Sensei of uncertainty, indeterminacy, and laid out the foundation for sports in ambiguity; proposing that nature and Japanese education and his immense seasonal change function as a system devotion and commitment to bringing the of recombinant codes for expressing Olympic Games to Japan, all the while Japanese sensibilities and serve as never ceasing to develop and promote motifs in the creative arts which shape the sport he created. Japanese life and thought. CULTURE CULTURE The Japanese Linguistic Making Xavier’s Dream Real
ISBN000-0-000000-00-0 00000 ¥0000E Vernacular Writings of Catholic Landscape 定価（本体000円+税） 一般財団法人 出版文化産業振興財団 Missionaries in Modern Japan Reflections on Quintessential Words Nanyan Guo NAKANISHI Susumu Beautiful words have an ageless quality, This book reveals how St. Francis Xavier’s regardless of when they first appeared (1506–1552) dream of evangelizing Japan in a language. This book introduces was realized by four Catholic missionaries a balanced mix of new and old words who lived in Japan and published in that reflect the singular beauty of the Japanese for the populace: Aimé Villion Japanese language. Only by submerging (1843–1932), Sauveur Candau (1897–1955), ourselves in a language can we perceive Hermann Heuvers (1890–1977), and Price: Hardcover ¥3,800 +tax Price: Hardcover ¥3,000 +tax Georges Neyrand (1920–2011). The ISBN 978-4-86658-068-5 its splendid subtleties and appreciate ISBN 978-4-86658-134-7 its true beauty. This book offers readers literature penned by these missionaries an opportunity to delve into the nuances not only enhances our understanding of of Japanese, explore the language’s the five-centuries-long dialogue between history, and savor its unique beauty. Europe and Japan, but also enables us to recognize and appreciate the extremely important role that Christianity has played in shaping today’s Japanese culture.
CULTURE ART & DESIGN Traditional Cuisine The Kidai Shôran of the Ryukyu Islands Scroll A History of Health and Healing Tokyo Street Life in the Edo Era TAKAGI Rin OZAWA Hiromu and KOBAYASHI This modern version of the Gozen honzo, Tadashi a nineteenth-century guidebook on diet therapy written in 1832 by TOKASHIKI KS_case_0204_outline.indd 1,3 2020/02/04 15:06 Price: Hardcover ¥3,500 +tax Pechin Tsukan, chief physician to the The Kidai Shôran is a magnificent ISBN: 978-4-86658-132-3 king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, will lead painted scroll depicting one of Edo’s you to understand that the Okinawan most iconic streets at the beginning of saying “food is kusuimun (medicine)” is the nineteenth century. It covers five Price: Hardcover ¥3,000 +tax truly so. It covers 60 traditional Ryukyu blocks of the main thoroughfare leading ISBN 978-4-86658-131-6 foodstuffs from grains and vegetables south from the Imagawabashi Bridge to to meat and fish, explains their the bridge at Nihonbashi, presenting an medicinal effects, required preparation, almost cinematic look at urban life during and effective combinations. Seventy the Edo period. It portrays over 1,600 recipes from the original text reproduce people from every walk of society. Expert the various delicacies that are the commentary and knowledgeable analysis foundation of Okinawan cuisine. by the authors bring the details to life.
ART & DESIGN UPCOMING The World of Ito Jakuchu Japan’s Approach to Legal and Judicial Classical Japanese Painter of All Things Great and Small in Nature Development in Developing Countries Building Trust and Partnership SATO Yasuhiro Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Jakuchû was an eighteenth-century self- educated artist who studied the Kanô Publication Date: April 2020 style then predominant in Japan, as well Hardcover ISBN 978-4-86658-130-9 as old Chinese classics. He began to sketch natural phenomena after studying the paintings of the Qing dynasty, and Price: Hardcover ¥4,200 +tax taking nature as his teacher, eventually ISBN 978-4-86658-135-4 The Sea of Japan established his own richly colored style Unraveling the Mystery of Its Hidden Depths of painting that portrayed the plants and animals of the natural world. This book GAMO Toshitaka includes full-color illustrations of his Plants and Animals in Color along with other important paintings, accompanied Publication Date: July 2020 by commentary from a variety of Hardcover ISBN 978-4-86658-129-3 perspectives. HISTORY The Political History of Modern Japan Fifteen Lectures on Showa Japan Foreign Relations and Domestic Politics Road to the Pacific War in Recent Historiography KITAOKA Shinichi Edited by TSUTSUI Kiyotada *Purchase at https://www.routledge.com/ Price: Hardcover ¥3,480 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-60-6 Price: Paperback ¥2,800 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-050-0 The Self-Defense Forces and Postwar Politics in Japan SADO Akihiro Friendship across the Seas Price: Hardcover ¥4,450 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-74-3 The US Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force AGAWA Naoyuki The Territory of Japan Price: Hardcover ¥3,100 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-055-5 Its History and Legal Basis SERITA Kentaro The History of US-Japan Relations Price: Hardcover ¥2,700 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-016-6 From Perry to the Present Edited by IOKIBE Makoto Toward the Abe Statement on the 70th Anniversary of *Purchase at https://www.palgrave.com/ the End of World War II Lessons from the 20th Century and a Vision for the 21st Century for Japan Japan-China Relations in the Modern Era Compiled by The Advisory Panel on the History of the 20th Century and on Japan’s Role KOKUBUN Ryosei, SOEYA Yoshihide, TAKAHARA Akio, KAWASHIMA Shin and the World Order in the 21st Century *Purchase at https://www.routledge.com/ Price: Hardcover ¥3,900 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-85-9 The Remarkable History of Japan-US Relations KOSAKA Masataka SOCIAL SCIENCES Price: Hardcover ¥2,800 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-77-4 The Happy Youth of a Desperate Country Security Politics in Japan The Disconnect between Japan’s Malaise and Its Millennials Legislation for a New Security Environment FURUICHI Noritoshi HOSOYA Yuichi Price: Hardcover ¥3,600 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-83-5 Price: Hardcover ¥2,900 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-053-1 If There Were No Japan Self-Respect and Independence of Mind A Cultural Memoir The Challenge of Fukuzawa Yukichi Roger Pulvers KITAOKA Shinichi OUT OF PRINT / ISBN 978-4-916055-44-6 Price: Hardcover ¥3,600 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-62-0 Pilgrimages in the Secular Age Toward Creation of a New World History From El Camino to Anime HANEDA Masashi OKAMOTO Ryosuke Price: Hardcover ¥2,700 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-023-4 Price: Hardcover ¥2,800 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-064-7 Toward the Meiji Revolution Saving the Mill The Search for “Civilization” in Nineteenth-Century Japan The amazing recovery of one of Japan’s largest paper mills following the 2011 KARUBE Tadashi earthquake and tsunami Price: Hardcover ¥3,000 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-059-3 SASA Ryoko NOT FOR SALE / ISBN 978-4-916055-47-7 Understanding History in Asia What Diplomatic Documents Reveal BUSINESS & ECONOMICS HATTORI Ryuji Price: Hardcover ¥3,100 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-054-8 The Entrepreneur Who Built Modern Japan Unsung Heroes of Old Japan Shibusawa Eiichi SHIMADA Masakazu ISODA Michifumi Price: Hardcover ¥3,300 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-79-8 Price: Hardcover ¥3,200 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-76-7 What Is Japanese Cinema? Global Class Japanese SMEs KUROSAKI Makoto A History Price: Hardcover ¥3,300 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-81-1 YOMOTA Inuhiko *Purchase at https://cup.columbia.edu/ Heritage Culture and Business, Kyoto Style Craftsmanship in the Creative Economy POLITICAL SCIENCE MURAYAMA Yuzo Price: Hardcover ¥3,900 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-058-6 The Burden of the Past Problems of Historical Perception in Japan-Korea Relations Human Resource Development in Twentieth-Century KIMURA Kan Japan *Purchase at https://www.press.umich.edu/ INOKI Takenori Japan in Asia Price: Hardcover ¥3,900 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-78-1 Post-Cold-War Diplomacy Tree-Ring Management TANAKA Akihiko Take the Long View and Grow Your Business Slowly Price: Hardcover ¥4,450 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-63-7 TSUKAKOSHI Hiroshi Japan’s Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia Price: Hardcover ¥2,640 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-46-0 Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia MIYAGI Taizo SCIENCE *Purchase at https://www.routledge.com/ Essays on the History of Scientific Thought in Modern Perspectives on Sino-Japanese Diplomatic Relations Japan The Yomiuri Shimbun Political News Department Edited by KANAMORI Osamu Price: Hardcover ¥3,600 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-87-3 Price: Hardcover ¥3,960 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-61-3 Listen to the Voice of the Earth Soetsu Yanagi Learn about earthquakes to save lives Selected Essays on Japanese Folk Crafts OKI Satoko YANAGI Soetsu Price: Hardcover ¥3,000 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-45-3 Price: Hardcover ¥4,200 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-75-0 Price: Paperback ¥3,500 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-145-3 Wasan, the Fascination of Traditional Japanese Mathematics ARCHITECTURE SAKURAI Susumu Price: Hardcover ¥2,600 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-017-3 The Building of Horyu-ji The Technique and Wood that Made It Possible BIOGRAPHY NISHIOKA Tsunekazu and KOHARA Jiro Price: Hardcover ¥3,510 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-59-0 Mixing Work with Pleasure Price: Paperback ¥2,800 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-143-9 My Life at Studio Ghibli SUZUKI Toshio Contemporary Japanese Architects Price: Hardcover ¥2,500 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-022-7 Profiles in Design IGARASHI Taro Mutsu Munemitsu and His Time Price: Hardcover ¥2,800 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-021-0 OKAZAKI Hisahiko Price: Hardcover ¥3,000 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-025-8 Japan’s Wooden Heritage A Journey Through a Thousand Years of Architecture CULTURE FUJIMORI Terunobu and FUJITSUKA Mitsumasa Edo Japan Encounters the World Price: Paperback ¥5,100 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-82-8 Conversations Between Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro Landscape Gardener Ogawa Jihei and His Times Donald Keene and SHIBA Ryotaro A Profile of Modern Japan Price: Hardcover ¥2,600 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-018-0 SUZUKI Hiroyuki Every Day a Good Day Price: Hardcover ¥2,700 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-019-7 Fifteen lessons I learned about happiness from Japanese tea culture PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION MORISHITA Noriko Price: Hardcover ¥2,900 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-062-3 Bushido and the Art of Living - An Inquiry into Samurai Values An Introduction to Yokai Culture Alexander Bennett Monsters, Ghosts, and Outsiders in Japanese History Price: Hardcover ¥3,400 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-86-6 KOMATSU Kazuhiko Price: Paperback ¥2,800 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-051-7 Price: Hardcover ¥3,900 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-80-4 Price: Paperback ¥2,700 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-049-4 Flower Petals Fall, but the Flower Endures Kabuki, a Mirror of Japan The Japanese Philosophy of Transience Ten Plays That Offer a Glimpse Into Evolving Sensibilities TAKEUCHI Seiichi MATSUI Kesako Price: Paperback ¥2,500 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-069-2 Price: Hardcover ¥3,640 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-58-3 Price: Paperback ¥2,800 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-144-6 Myth and Deity in Japan The Interplay of Kami and Buddhas The Lure of Pokémon KAMATA Tôji Video Games and the Savage Mind Price: Hardcover ¥3,900 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-84-2 NAKAZAWA Shinichi Price: Paperback ¥2,800 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-052-4 Price: Hardcover ¥2,800 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-065-4 Words to Live by The People and Culture of Japan Japanese Classics for Our Time Conversations Between Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro NAKANO Kôji Donald Keene and SHIBA Ryotaro Price: Hardcover ¥2,700 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-024-1 Price: Hardcover ¥3,000 + tax / ISBN 978-4-916055-57-6 Price: Paperback ¥2,400 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-048-7
ART & DESIGN The Art of Emptiness SAKAIDA Kakiemon XIV AVAILABILITY Price: Hardcover ¥3,900 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-063-0 JAPAN: Available at most major bookstores in Japan (including The Book of Urushi university and airport bookstores) Japanese Lacquerware from a Master WORLDWIDE: KINOKUNIYA BOOK STORES, HAKUBUNDO, JP BOOKS, MATSUDA Gonroku ASAHIYA BOOKSTORE Hong Kong Price: Hardcover ¥3,700 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-060-9 eBOOK: Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Rakuten Kobo Designing Japan LIBRARIES: EBSCO, Rakuten OverDrive A Future Built on Aesthetics For more information please visit https://japanlibrary.jpic.or.jp HARA Kenya Price: Hardcover ¥3,000 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-015-9 [email protected] The Japanese Sense of Beauty TAKASHINA Shûji Price: Hardcover ¥2,700 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-020-3 Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC) 2-2-30 Kanda-Jinbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0051, Japan The Music of Color 一般財団法人 出版文化産業振興財団 SHIMURA Fukumi 〒101-0051 東京都千代田区神田神保町2-2-30 Price: Flexi-bound ¥3,700 + tax / ISBN 978-4-86658-061-6