This book discusses the architectural influence that Japan and the West have had on each other during the last 150 years. While the recent histories of Western

A broad survey of the West's extraordinary love affair with Japan. From the moment of the very first contact in the sixteenth century, Japan has always possesse

This book first published in 1998 containes the work of Six members of the Centre for Japanese Research (CJR), an area unit of the Institute for Asian Research

In this rich and absorbing analysis of the transformation of political thought in nineteenth-century Japan, Douglas Howland examines the transmission to Japan o

Examines the right and the wrongs on both sides to blame for Western decline in the face of the Japanese competition? Are the Europeans and Americans lazy as we