The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922

By Phillips O'Brien

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was the first formal agreement of its type reached by a Western 'great' power with a non-Caucasian nation in the modern era....

Published December 25th 2003 by Routledge.

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Financial Governance in East Asia

Policy Dialogue, Surveillance and Cooperation

Edited by Gordon De Brouwer, Yunjong Wang

The focus of international financial reform in recent years has largely been at the global level, in terms of improving the international financial architecture, and...

Published December 11th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Tôkaidô Road

Travelling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan

By Jilly Traganou

The Tôkaidô Road offers a comparative study of the Tôkaidô road's representations during the Edo (1600-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) eras. Throughout the Edo era, the...

Published December 4th 2003 by Routledge.

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Academic Nations in China and Japan

Framed by Concepts of Nature, Culture and the Universal

By Margaret Sleeboom

The descriptions Chinese and Japanese people attribute to themselves and to each other differ vastly and stand in stark contrast to Western perceptions that usually...

Published November 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Chinese Hsinhai Revolution

G. E. Morrison and Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1897-1920

By Eiko Woodhouse

The Chinese Hsinhai Revolution explores and explains for the first time the important role of G. E. Morrison in great power diplomacy in China from...

Published November 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession

Adopting and Adapting Western Influences

By Aya Takahashi

In the years after 1868, when Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation ended, in nursing, as in every other aspect of life, the Japanese looked...

Published November 13th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact

A Diplomatic History 1941-1945

By Boris Slavinsky

The neutrality pact between Japan and the Soviet Union, signed in April 1941, lapsed only nine months before its expiry date of April 1946 when...

Published October 30th 2003 by Routledge.

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Old Japanese

A Phonetic Reconstruction

By Marc Hideo Miyake

What did eighth century Japanese sound like? How does one decode its complex script? This book provides the definitive answers to these questions using an...

Published September 25th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Changing Face of Japanese Management

By Keith Jackson, Miyuki Tomioka

For many western managers the approach taken by successful Japanese organisations and their managers has tended to inspire awe, envy and incomprehension in equal measure....

Published August 28th 2003 by Routledge.

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Japanese Capitalism and Modernity in a Global Era

Refabricating Lifetime Employment Relations

By Peter Matanle

Japanese Capitalism and Modernity in a Global Era provides an in-depth examination of one of the most central and defining aspects of capitalist modernity in...

Published August 14th 2003 by Routledge.

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