Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East. By Leonard S. Marcus Leonard S. Marcus is the author of “Pictured Worlds: ...

In Yukie’s Island: My Family’s World War II Story, a family’s tranquil existence on tiny Bentenjima Island off the coast of Nemuro, Japan is shattered in 1945, as Allied forces were closing in on ...

Explore Japanese history books covering samurai, religion, war, pop culture and modern society, from ancient Japan to today.

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