The Floating World by novelist James A. Michener is a classic work on the Japanese print of the E...

Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965) was a great admirer of Edgar Allan Poe and like Poe drew on his penchan...

Huineng (638–713), author and hero of the Platform Sutra, is often credited with founding the Sou...

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Two years after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, Pak Chega's (1750-1805) Dis...

This is a thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: Intermediate 2, the fourth volume of t...

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The Tai Lue of Sipsong Panna, located in China's southern Yunnan province, is the largest communi...

This book presents the first comprehensive introduction to Korean Buddhism through twenty-five ke...

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Remembering Kalākaua

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'The exploration and settlement of the Pacific Island world is one of the most remarkable achieve...

'After the fall of the Marcos regime in 1986, the Philippines became the first country in Asia to...

A story and hands-on exploration of music made from rubbish!

On the evening of April 15, 2014, the Sewol ferry set sail on its overnight journey from Incheon,...

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Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea (Samguk yusa) is the first annotated English tran...

Legacies of Incarceration provides a holistic view of the incarceration experience of Hawaiʻi's J...

Mother Tree imparts wisdom to her offspring, Daughter Seed, as they grow alongside each other in ...

'In the mid-fourteenth century, when Japan's imperial succession practices had been strained by d...

Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic is a richly detailed ethnographic study of cl...

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Peripheral Linguistic Brutality is a sociolinguistic investigation into the production of 'metaln...

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'In the connected highlands of southwest China, Vietnam, and Laos, recalling the past is a highly...

'Hyakunin'shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan explores the 'popular literary literac...

'Modern social movements frequently serve as a space to voice concerns in a supportive and collec...

Emplacing East Timor explores the relationship between the cycle of regime change and that of kno...

The various words for 'divorce' in Japanese--rien, enkiri, fūfu wakare, rikon--reflect how the so...

Outsiders have construed Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands as isolated natural laboratories since the ...

For over a century, Japan has vexed and disappointed its Western allies by resisting their effort...

Written by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion, From Stars to Stones is the fourth i...

Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away

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'Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Arti...

Lyrical Translation is a literary history of modern Korean poetry's origins and its development t...

Rounding the Bases

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The Contours of Endearment

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Voices Beyond the Grave uncovers critically understudied histories of Japanese internment and lab...

During the first half of the twentieth century, a wide range of the Japanese populace was drawn t...

'We joked often—laughed to the point of crying (that deep visceral laughter)—not just about the s...