Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of...

Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from ...

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays fro...

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of...

This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions ...

When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogu...

The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial trium...

“Few memoirs have the concision, modesty, and charm that mark this late-life work by . . . ...

The renowned Japanese scholar “brings us as close to the inner life of the ...

Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. He was a failure as a soldier, in...

Set on an island in the South Pacific during the final days of World War II, when the tide has tu...

Rather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century,...