Punctum Books, September 2025. Trade Paperback. A man dies. He dies because he must-because without his death, there is no story, and, in the end, no history itself. So begins Mariko Nagai's Imaginary Death, a creative nonfiction book that examines how the author's grandfather, an ordinary man born in a......

Tuttle Publishing, August 2025. Trade Paperback. The classic story of Japan's origins--now in a fully revised and reader-friendly edition. The Kojiki is Japan's oldest surviving text, chronicling the mythical creation of the Japanese islands, the origins of the imperial family, and the early development of Shinto, Japan's indigenous religion. A......

Experiment, July 2024. Trade Paperback. Zen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games . . . Japanese culture has long enriched our Western way of life. Yet from a Western perspective, Japan remains a remote island country that has long had a complicated relationship with the outside world.....

Tuttle Publishing, August 2017. Trade Paperback. This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion. First revealed to Westerners in.....

University of Chicago Press, March 1988. Trade Paperback. This long-awaited work explores the place of kokugaku (rendered here as "nativism") during Japan's Tokugawa period. Kokugaku, the sense of a distinct and sacred Japanese identity, appeared in the eighteenth century in reaction to the pervasive influence of Chinese culture on Japan.....