Bücher der Reihe Routledge Library Editions: Japan

A selection of some of the best plays of Chikamatsu, one of the greatest Japanese dramatists.

A study that describes the British government's policy towards China during the first phases of the undeclared Sino-Japanese war, starting in July 1937 and ending in September 1939 when the outbreak of the war over Poland forced the British government to turn almost all its attention to Europe.

Focusing on the four main phases of modernizing and modernized Japan beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing to postmodern society, this work shows that the processes of modernization brought a coexistence of generational variation imbued with tensions, conflicts and synergies.

Investigates and presents the salient features of Shinto through a long history of development from its remote past up to the present.