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山川出版社の「詳説日本史」がオーディオブックになりました。学習の基本となる教科書をナレーターが朗読。教科書を見ながら聴けば、いっそう理解が深まります。学校の予習・復習や受験対策、さらに一般教養としてもおすすめです。※山川出版社の教科書「詳説日本史」(平成25年度新課程供給本)の本文の朗読です。本文中の( )内の語句は、適宜、読み替え・省略をしています。(C)2013山川出版社

山川出版社の「詳説日本史」がオーディオブックになりました。学習の基本となる教科書をナレーターが朗読。教科書を見ながら聴けば、いっそう理解が深まります。学校の予習・復習や受験対策、さらに一般教養としてもおすすめです。※山川出版社の教科書「詳説日本史」(平成25年度新課程供給本)の本文の朗読です。本文中の( )内の語句は、適宜、読み替え・省略をしています。(C)2013山川出版社

The Battle of Okinawa was the deadliest campaign of the Pacific during World War II. The Americans had come back from the demoralizing defeat at Pearl Harbor to mount a ferocious attack against the Japanese. To be able to invade Japan, the Americans had to take Okinawa. But the Japanese, determined to defend their homeland and preserve their way of life, would fight to the death against the invaders. As the Army and Marines fought bloody battles to gain Okinawa inch by inch, the Navy was subjected to kamikaze attacks.

山川出版社の「詳説日本史」がオーディオブックになりました。学習の基本となる教科書をナレーターが朗読。教科書を見ながら聴けば、いっそう理解が深まります。学校の予習・復習や受験対策、さらに一般教養としてもおすすめです。※山川出版社の教科書「詳説日本史」(平成25年度新課程供給本)の本文の朗読です。本文中の( )内の語句は、適宜、読み替え・省略をしています。(C)2013山川出版社

For months during 1943 there was no night in Hellfire Pass. By the light of flares, carbide lamps and bamboo fires, men near-naked and skeletal cut a passage through stone to make way for a railway. Among these men were some of the 22,000 Australian soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War II. In camps across Asia and the Pacific, they struggled, died, and survived with a little help from their mates.

Near the end of World War II, in an attempt to attack the United States mainland, Japan launched its fu-go campaign, deploying thousands of high-altitude hydrogen balloons armed with incendiary and high-explosive bombs designed to follow the westerly winds of the upper atmosphere and drift to the west coast of North America. After reaching the mainland, these fu-go, the Japanese hoped, would terrorize American citizens and ignite devastating forest fires across the western states, ultimately causing the United States to divert wartime resources to deal with the domestic crisis.

At the height of the Korean War, President Truman launched one of the most important intelligence-gathering operations in history. So valuable were the mission's findings about the North Korean-Soviet-Chinese alliance that it is no stretch to say they prevented World War III.

What did the samurai in Japan do? How did they begin? And what was so typical or different about them? These and many other questions will be answered in this quick guide that will cover all the basics of the famous samurai warriors in ancient Japan. You will learn about shoguns, bushido, the Meiji time period, Ronin warriors, the Genpei war in 1180, the Kamakura period, the infamous suicide methods for honor (hara-kiri), and much, much more.

This 2-in1 bundle covers various mythologies from around the world - From ancient Japanese myths and Germanic mythology, to the beliefs held sacred by the Aztecs, the Mayans, and the Polynesians civilizations.

This volume in a series of world history case studies investigates the life of the Japanese emperor who abdicated in 1629 and then dedicated the rest of his life to promoting Japanese cultural traditions and artistic forms as a poignant resistance to the assertion of Tokugawa authority. The story of Go-Mizunoo’s defiance, which was deeply tied to the development of Buddhist sects in Japan, presents the familiar story of the rise of the shoguns from an unexpected perspective that helps us to understand the complexities of seventeenth century Japan in a new way. This book is a volume in the...

Explained in simple terms for a brief, yet comprehensive listen, this resource is packed with all the essential information you need to dive into the history of the samurai. Uncover the strength of mankind and explore the rich culture behind Japan’s revered warriors. If you want to enrich yourself with the history of the samurai and their principles, then scroll up, and click the “Buy” button right now.

Among Buddhist traditions, Zen has been remarkably successful in garnering and sustaining interest outside the Buddhist homelands of Asia, and "zen" is now part of the global cultural lexicon. This deeply informed book explores the history of this enduring Japanese tradition - from its beginnings as a form of Buddhist thought and practice imported from China to its reinvention in medieval Japan as a force for religious, political, and cultural change to its role in Japan's embrace of modernity.

The United States needs to understand each of the many Asian states in detail: while there are similarities, they all have situations that are difficult to compare. The U.S., Japan, and Asia in International Politics focuses on U.S. interests in Asia in its broadest contours - from Japan, China, and the Koreas in the east; a discussion of India in the south; and also to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the west. This book also treats Russia as an Asia-Pacific power.

Discover the fascinating history of Pachinko, one of Japan's most popular and enduring cultural phenomena. In this comprehensive audiobook, you'll explore the origins of Pachinko, its evolution into a multi-billion dollar industry, and the controversies and challenges it has faced along the way.

La Breve historia de los samurais describe todos los aspectos de la vida de los Samurais: Su entrenamiento, cultura, su armadura, armas y técnicas de lucha. El libro narra la historia de algunos de los más fantásticos guerreros, como Oda Nobunaga, un hombre de humilde cuna que a su muerte en 1582 había conseguido controlar 30 de las 68 provincias Japonesas ganándose un lugar en la historia, como uno de los 3 grandes unificadores del Japón.

Warriors of myth and legend, yet as real as a throat slit in the night, Ninja are a fascinating, mysterious presence in our world. Through generations of disinformation and, more recently, their place in popular culture, the origins, tools, and methodology of the Ninja have been shrouded in secrecy to alternately terrify or entertain the populace.

En la antigüedad, los japoneses dependían de los caracteres chinos (kanji) para escribir todo tipo de documentos y manuscritos, desde cartas oficiales hasta registros de censos y poesía. Solo durante el periodo Heian (794-1185 de la era cristiana) empezaron a crear su propio sistema de escritura, conocido hoy como kana.

The Imperial Japanese Military had invaded Shanghai on August 13, 1937, rapidly reducing the once-prosperous city to a pile of burning rubble after three months of brutal urban combat. Countless blazing fires raged throughout the city, some of which had been caused by the fighting, but most had been set by the retreating Chinese Army in a futile effort to stall the Japanese invaders.

By the summer of 1945, Adm. Bull Halsey's US Third Fleet had fought its way far enough in the Pacific that its carrier-based fighters could launch attacks on Japan itself in preparation for the invasion of the home islands, planned for the fall of 1945. This mission US Navy fighters, fighter-bombers, dive-bombers, and torpedo-bombers - Hellcats, Avengers, Helldivers, and more - carried out with a vengeance, striking airfields, industrial targets, and coastal facilities while flying into the teeth of Japanese air defenses.

Shanghai, known as the Pearl of the Orient, had always been an international center in China was near-total destruction during the Sino-Japanese War. Following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, the Japanese headed for its goal, the capital of China, Nanking. Shanghai was a key battleground before they were able to reach the capital of China, which brought on the “Stalingrad on the Yangtze”.