Japanese collection

MCHE Library’s application to become a recipient of a book donation from the  “Read Japan” program in 2010 was favourably received and this library has been donated with 100 books from the Japan Nippon Foundation.

Book donation from Read Japan program

These books are received from the Nippon Foundation’s “100 Books for Understanding Contemporary Japan” catalogue. The books cover five categories, Politics & International Relations, Economy & Business, Society & Culture, Literature & Arts, and History.

The Nippon Foundation  hopes that  the books can help deepen the understanding of Japan among the people of the Maldives and that this understanding can further strengthen and reinforce the ties between the two countries.

The 100 books strengthens our library collection specially in the areas of Politics, Literature & Arts, as well as Society and Culture.

The books were received by the MCHE Library in December 2010 and it is in the process of being added to the MCHE Library’s collection.

The following is the list of the 100 books received under this program. Follow the catalogue link to find out the location of the books.

Politics/Government/International Relations

• The autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, Yukichi Fukuzawa, Columbia University Press, 1966
• Broadcasting politics in Japan : NHK and television news, Ellis S. Krauss, Cornell University Press, 2000
• Constructing civil society in Japan : voices of environmental movements, Koichi Hasegawa, Trans Pacific Press, 2004
• Cultural norms and national security : police and military in postwar Japan, Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University Press, 1996
• A discourse by three drunkards on government, Nakae Chomin, Weatherhill, 1984
• Governing Japan : divided politics in a resurgent economy, J. A. A. Stockwin, Blackwells Publishing, 1999
• The Iwakura Mission in America and Europe: A New Assessment , Ian Nish (Ed.), Routledge Curzon, 1998
• Japan remodeled : how government and industry are reforming Japanese capitalism, Steven K. Vogel, Cornell University Press, 2006
• Japan rising : the resurgence of Japanese power and purpose, Kenneth B. Pyle, Public Affairs, 2007
• Japanese foreign policy at the crossroads : challenges and options for the twenty-first century, Yutaka Kawashima, Brookings Institution Press, 2003
• Japan’s Love-Hate Relationship with the West, Sukehiro Hirakawa, Global Oriental LTD, 2005
• Japan’s quest for a permanent security council seat : a matter of pride or justice?, Reinhard Drifte, St. Martin’s Press, 2000
• The logic of Japanese politics : leaders, institutions, and the limits of change, Gerald L. Curtis, Columbia University Press, 1999
• Machiavelli’s children : leaders and their legacies in Italy and Japan, Richard J. Samuels , Cornell University Press, 2003
• Media and politics in Japan, Susan J. Pharr and Ellis S. Kraus (Eds.), University of Hawai’i Press, 1996
• Network Power: Japan and Asia , Peter J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi (Eds.), Cornell University Press, 1997
• Regime transformations and global realignments : indo-european dialogues on the post-cold war world, T. J. Pempel, Cornell University Press, 1998
• Securing Japan : Tokyo’s grand strategy and the future of East Asia, Richard J. Samuels, Cornell University Press, 2007
• Thought and Behavior in Modern Japanese Politics, Masao Maruyama, Oxford University Press, 1969
• The turbulent decade : confronting the refugee crises of the 1990s, Sadako Ogata , W. W. Norton & Company, 2005
• The U.S.-Japan alliance: past,present and future, Michael J. Green & Patrick M. Cronin (Eds.), Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1999
• U.S.-Japan relations in a changing world, Steven K. Vogel (Ed.), Brookings Institution Press, 2002

Economics/Business

• An Anticlassical Political-Economic Analysis: A Vision for the Next Century , Yasusuke Murakami, Stanford University Press, 1996
• British Factory – Japanese Factory: The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial Relations , Ronald  Dore , University of California Press, 1973
• The Economics of Work in Japan, Kazuo Koike, LTCB International Library Foundation, 1995
• The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota, Takahiro Fujimoto, Oxford University Press, 1999
• Four Practical Revolutions in Management: Systems for Creating Unique Organizational Capability, Shoji Shiba and David Walden, Productivity Press, 1993
• Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949, Kaoru Sugihara (Ed.), Oxford University Press, 2005
• Japan in the 21st Century: Environment, Economy, and Society, Pradyumna P. Karan, The University Press of Kentucky, 2005
• The Japanese Company , Rodney Clark , Yale University Press, 1979
• The Japanese Economic System and Its Historical Origins , Tetsuji Okazaki & Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara (Eds.), Oxford University Press, 1999
• The Japanese Firm: The Sources of Competitive Strength, Masahiko Aoki and Ronald Dore (Eds.), Oxford University Press,
  1994
• Japan’s Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change , Jennifer A. Amyx, Princeton University Press, 2004
• Japan’s Lost Decade, Hiroshi Yoshikawa, LTCB International Library Foundation, 2001
• Lectures on Modern Japanese Economic History, 1926-1994, Takafusa Nakamura, LTCB International Library Foundation, 1994
• Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan , William M. Tsutsui , Princeton University Press, 1998
• MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975, Chalmers Johnson, Stanford University Press, 1982
• Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920, Thomas C. Smith, University of California Press, 1988
• Stock Market Capitalism: Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons , Ronald Dore , Oxford University Press, 2000
• The Sun Also Sets: The Limits to Japan’s Economic Power, Bill Emmott, Touchstone, 1989
• 21st-Century Japanese Management: New Systems, Lasting Values , James C. Abegglen, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Society/Culture

• The Anatomy of Dependence , Takeo Doi, Kodansha International, 1973
• Bushido: The Soul of Japan , Inazo Nitobe, Kodansha Interantional, 2002
• Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600-1868, Nishiyama Matsunosuke, University of Hawai’i Press, 1997
• Family and Social Policy in Japan: Anthropological Approaches, Roger Goodman (Ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2002
• Gender and Development: The Japanese Experience in Comparative Perspective , Mayumi Murayama (Ed.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
• Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S., Roland Kelts, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
• Japanese Science: From the Inside, Samuel J. Coleman, Routledge, 1999
• Japanese Society , Chie Nakane, University of California Press, 1970
• Japan’s High Schools, Thomas P. Rohlen, University of California Press, 1983
• Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots, Timothy N. Hornyak, Kodansha International, 2006
• Neighborhood Tokyo, Theodore C. Bestor, Stanford University Press, 1989
• Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection, Leonard J. Schoppa, Cornell University Press, 2006
• Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan, Morris Low, Shigeru Nakayama, and Hitoshi Yoshioka, Cambridge University Press, 1999
• Tokugawa religion : the cultural roots of modern Japan, Robert N. Bellah, The Free Press, 1957
• Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World, Theodore C. Bestor, University of California Press, 2004

Literature/Arts

• Anime: From Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation, Susan J. Napier, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
• The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto, Kenji Nakagami , Stone Bridge Press, 1999
• The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From 1945 to the Present, Thomas J. Rimer and Gessel Van (Eds.), Columbia University Press, 2007
• Contemporary Japanese Film, Mark Schilling, Weatherhill, 1999
• Contemporary Japanese Literature: An Anthology of Fiction, Film, and Other Writing Since 1945 , Howard Hibbett (Ed.), Cheng & Tsui, 2005
• Dreamland Japan : writings on mobern manga, Frederik L. Schodt, Stone Bridge Press, 1996
• Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times, Miriam Silverberg, University of California Press, 2006
• Five Modern Japanese Novelists, Donald Keene, Columbia University Press, 2003
• In Praise of Shadows, Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, Vintage, 2001
• Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction, Noriko Mizuta Lippit and Kyoko Iriye Selden (Eds.), M.E. Sharpe, 1991
• Kabuki: Baroque Fusion of the Arts, Toshio Kawatake, I House Press, 2003
• Kabuki Heroes on the Osaka Stage, 1780-1830, Andrew C. Gerstle, University of Hawai’i Press, 2005
• Kafu the Scribbler: The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafu, 1879-1959 , Edward G. Seidensticker, University of Michigan Centre for Japanese Studies, 1990
• Kokoro, Soseki Natsume , Tuttle Publishing, 1969
• The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings , Ihara Saikaku, New Directions Publishing, 1963
• Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics, Paul Gravett, Collins Design, 2004
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches , Matsuo Basho, Penguin Books, 1966
• The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film, Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp, Stone Bridge Press, 2004
• Oe and beyond : fiction in contemporary Japan, Stephen Snyder and Philip Gabriel (Eds.), University of Hawai’i Press, 1999
• Origins of Modern Japanese Literature, Karatani Kojin, Duke University Press, 1993
• A Personal Matter, Kenzaburo Oe, Grove Press, 1969
• The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, Donald Keene, Columbia University Press, 1988
• I Haven’t Dreamed of Flying for a While , Taichi Yamada, Faber & Faber, 2008
• Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu, Tuttle Publishing, 1976
• The Tales of the Heike,  , Columbia University Press, 2006
• The Wild Goose, Ogai Mori, University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 1995

History

• The abacus and the sword: the Japanese penetration of Korea, 1895- 1910, Peter Duus , University of California Press, 1995
• The atomic bomb : voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Kyoko and Mark Selden (Eds.), M.E. Sharpe, 1989
• The conquest of ainu lands : ecology and cullture in Japanese expansion 1590-1800, Brett L.Walker, University of California Press, 2001
• A Diary of Darkness: The Wartime Diary of Kiyosawa Kiyoshi, Kiyoshi Kiyosawa, Princeton University Press, 1998
• Emperor of Japan: Meiji and his world 1852-1912, Donald Keene , Columbia University Press, 2002
• From mahan to pearl harbor : the imperial Japanese navy and the United states, Sadao Asada, Naval Institute Press, 2006
• The Japanese colonial empire 1895-1945, Ramon H. Myers and Mark R. Peattie (Eds.), Princeton University Press, 1984
• Japanese imperialism 1894-1945, William G. Beasley, Clarendon Press, 1987
• The making of modern Japan, Marius B. Jansen, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000
• Modern Japan, Peter Duus, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998
• Postwar Japan as history, Andrew Gordon (Ed.), University of California Press, 1993
• Sakamoto ryoma and the meiji restoration, Marius B. Jansen, Columbia University Press, 1994
• Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage, Haru Matsukata Reischauer, Tuttle Publishing, 1986
• State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu, Ronald P. Toby, Stanford University Press, 1991
• Victor’s justice : the Tokyo war crimes trial, Richard R. Minear, University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2001
• Viions of ryukyu : identity and ideology in early-modern thought and politics, Gregory Smits , University of Hawai’i Press, 1999
• War without mercy : race and power in the pacific war, John W. Dower , Pantheon Books, 1986
• From marco polo bridge to Pearl Harbor : who was responsible?, The Yomiuri Shimbun, 2006

These books are available for borrowing by all MCHE library members and can be read in the library by anyone visiting our MCHE Library branches. If any of the books above is not yet showing up on our online catalogue, please approach circulation staffs (or leave a comment on this post) to let us know the item you require, and we will speed up the process.

The Maldives College of Higher Education and the MCHE Library is very thankful for this generous donation by the Nippon Foundation of Japan. Comments from our readers about the usability of this collection will be much appreciated by the MCHE Library as well as the Nippon Foundation.

Enjoy reading!