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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo-the city that would become Tokyo-and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West."--
Author
Series
Sano Ichiro mysteries volume 16
Language
English
Description
When the shogun's carefully regulated court is thrown into chaos by a massive earthquake in 1703 Japan, Sano Ichiro investigates the poisoning murders of a nobleman's daughters to prevent the regime's takeover.
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Edward Seidensticker's A History of Tokyo 1867-1989 tells the fascinating story of Tokyo's transformation from the Shogun's capital in an isolated Japan to the largest and the most modern city in the world. With the same scholarship and sparkling style that won him admiration as the foremost translator of great works of Japanese literature, Seidensticker offers the reader his brilliant vision of an entire society suddenly wrenched from an ancient...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Bells of Old Tokyo is a remarkable literary debut by Anna Sherman that is an elegant and insightful tour of Tokyo and its residents, as well as a meditation on Japanese culture and society. The book is structured around Anna's search for the eight lost bells that once surrounded the city. These bells marked the city's neighborhoods and kept time for its inhabitants before the introduction of Western-style clocks. The bells are tangible vestiges...
Author
Publisher
Stone Bridge Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world. Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city's dark underbelly, interviews...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened and more than 100,000 men, women, and children were killed. Black Snow is the story of this devastating operation, orchestrated by Major General Curtis LeMay, who...
Author
Publisher
MBI Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"An overview of the bombing campaign against Tokyo in World War II as well as a detailed account of a specific bombing mission from a Pacific island airfield on Tinian to Tokyo and back, told in the veterans' words, including pilots and other aircrew, groundcrew, and escort fighters that accompanied the B-29 bombers on their perilous mission"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Publisher
Potomac Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Ted W. Lawson's classic Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo appears in an enhanced reprint edition on the sixtieth anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan. "One of the worst feelings about that time," Ted W. Lawson writes, "was that there was no tangible enemy. It was like being slugged with a single punch in a dark room, and having no way of knowing where to slug back." He added, "And, too, there was a helpless, filled-up, want-to-do-something feeling that...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A narrative account of the Doolittle Raids of World War II traces the daring Raiders attack on mainland Japan, the fate of the crews who survived the mission, and the international war crimes trials that defined Japanese-American relations and changed legal history.
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