Born 1928 in Nishinomiya Lived with an American living in Japan, Meredith Weatherby, a housemate of Donald Richie's Worked as an extra in films by Nikkatsu Studios "Yato" was his assumed name Published 3 collections of photographs Friends with Yukio Mishima Died in 1973 Tamotsu Yato, a photographer working in Japan from the mid-60s to the early 70s, created images of Japanese m...(展开全部)

In this sweeping study of the mapping and remapping of male-male sexuality over four centuries of Japanese history, Gregory Pflugfelder explores the languages of medicine, law, and popular culture from the seventeenth century through the American Occupation. Pflugfelder opens with fascinating speculations about how an Edo translator might grapple with a twentieth-century text o...(展开全部)

In this sweeping study of the mapping and remapping of male-male sexuality over four centuries of Japanese history, Gregory Pflugfelder explores the languages of medicine, law, and popular culture from the seventeenth century through the American Occupation. Pflugfelder opens with fascinating speculations about how an Edo translator might grapple with a twentieth-century text o...(展开全部)

Gregory M. Pflugfelder is Assistant Professor of Japanese History at Columbia University.

Savor the colors, treasure the details, and marvel at the intricate behaviors of more than 300 species of birds reflected in the striking book by award-winning photographer Joel Sartore and birder extraordinaire Noah Strycker. Remarkable photographic portraits from Sartore’s National Geographic Photo Ark project and Strycker’s inspiring words portray the diversity of birds from...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2006 American Horitcultural Society Book Award Gardening has reached new heights of sophistication, and this book profiles a number of the most notable gardens in Japan and beyond. The goal of a Japanese garden is to suggest a landscape, to depict famous natural scenes, or to evoke a particular artistic quality or atmosphere. Graveled courtyards, early aristocra...(展开全部)

Widely recognized both in America and Japan for his insider knowledge and penetrating analyses of Japanese politics, Gerald Curtis is the political analyst best positioned to explore the complexities of the Japanese political scene today. Curtis has personally known most of the key players in Japanese politics for more than thirty years, and he draws on their candid comments to...(展开全部)

In this wide-ranging study of Japanese cultural expression, Alan Tansman reveals how a particular, often seemingly innocent aesthetic sensibility - present in novels, essays, popular songs, film, and political writings - helped create an 'aesthetic of fascism' in the years leading up to World War II. Evoking beautiful moments of violence, both real and imagined, these works did...(展开全部)

For survey courses in the History of Asia and the History of Japan. This brief survey of the long and rich history of Japan, written by one of the world's leading scholars in the field, provides an overall framework for understanding this great nation from its origins to the present day. The book explores the arts and literature, political change, economic advancement, and...(展开全部)

阿尔伯特·克雷格（Albert M.Craig），哈佛燕京学社社长，赖肖尔日本研究所主席，哈佛东亚研究中心副主任。1949年毕业于美国西北大学哲学系，1959年获得哈佛大学博士学位。曾荣获古根海姆奖学金、富布莱特奖学金，先后前往日本京都大学、东京大学、庆应大学访学，1988年被日本政府授予旭日章。代表著作：《明治维新时期的长州》（1961）、《东亚文明：传统与变革》（1989，与费正清、赖肖尔合著）、《世界文明的遗产》（2000）《中国文明的遗产》（2001）、《日本文明的遗产》（2002）、《文明与启蒙：福泽渝吉早期思想探析》（2009）等。 李虎，青年翻译家，北京大学硕士，现就职于国家海洋局第三海洋研究所。从事海洋科学、生物多样性和科学史的翻译工作。译著《地球上最伟大的表演：进化的证据》、《众病之王：癌症传》、《物种源始》（第1版）、《忧天:全球...(展开全部)