This major new series, published under the Japan Library imprint, features the collected writings of many of the most outstanding western scholars who have been actively writing about Japan and connected subjects over the last half century. For the first time in scholarly publishing, this series makes available a comprehensive collection of the author's lifetime output that might otherwise be lost or dispersed. Over twenty volumes are anticipated. Published in Japan by Edition Synapse.
By Hugh Cortazzi
August 10, 2016
Special areas: biographies, history, cultural exchange, arts, business and foreign affairs....
By Ben-Ami Shillony
July 28, 2016
This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Ben-Ami Shillony on modern history, crisis and culture, Japan and the Jews....
By Carmen Blacker
July 08, 2016
This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Carmen Blacker, who wrote extensively on religion, myth and folklore....
By W. G. Beasley
March 02, 2001
Developed in close collaboration with W. G. Beasley, this book contains a wide and substantial cross-section of writings, thematically structured around essays in the special areas of Bakufu and Meji Studies....
By R.P. Dore
February 07, 2002
This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan, published under the Japan Library imprint, brings together landmark writings by R.P. Dore, on Japanese society, politics and economics....
By Ian Nish
February 07, 2002
This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Ian Nish on international relations affecting Japan, Russia, China and Korea in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
By Ian Nish
March 02, 2001
Developed in close collaboration with Ian Nish, this book contains a wide and substantial cross-section of writings, thematically structured around essays in the special areas of Anglo-Japanese Alliance....
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By Ian Nish, Richard Storry
February 07, 2002
This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan series, published under the Japan Library imprint, collects the work of Richard Storry on contempory issues and the history of Japan....
By Gordon Daniels
March 01, 2004
Originally a student of Meiji Japan, Gordon Daniels is widely known for his work on the Pacific War and the Occupation of Japan, with particular regard to the world of communications in film and propaganda as well as Japanese sport. He has also been closely involved with the post-war era of ...
By J.A.A. Stockwin
March 01, 2004
The volume opens with a detailed autobiographical sketch of the author's original 'meeting with Japan', which began in 1961after taking up a post at ANU, Canberra (the result of a successful response to an advert in the Manchester Guardian). After twenty-one years in Australia, Arthur Stockwin ...
By J. Thomas Rimer
March 01, 2004
Widely acknowledged as the doyen of twentieth-century Japanese literature, fine art and the performing arts, as well as being renowned for his translations of Zeami and Mori Ogai. Collected Writings of J.Thomas Rimer brings together in whole or in part much of Rimer's prodigious output in these ...
By R. P. Dore, Ian Nish, Richard Storry
February 07, 2002
This set of volumes is part of a major new series, and features the collected writings of some of the most outstanding Western scholars who have been actively writing about Japan and connected subjects over the last half century....
