This book deals with a phenomenon that has for centuries now cast its dark shadow over the history and politics of that highly sensitive and troubled region: The Persian Gulf. This phenomenon is the uninterrupted "interest" displayed in this region by a whole series of colonialist and imperialist powers. This "interest" has manifested itself in open as well as covert interference, outright inva…
The terrorism phenomenon, which occurred since mankind was created, has been always denounced and rejected throughout history. So it is as old as mankind. But it is in human nature to love goodness, peace, security and stability while evil and violence have remained strange and anomalous manifestations and contrary to God's creation of man. Thus, human history has bad memories of these manifest…
The reference annual, India-2002, contains information on diverse aspects of the country-its geography and demographic features, polity, economy, society and culture. The information is gathered from Central Government Ministries/ states/ union territories and other organizations. As a work of reference, the annual is particularly useful to scholars, authors, students, officials, journalists, a…
Following its liberation from Japanese colonialism, at the end of WWII, Korea was divided into two separate nations. Because the Korean nation enjoyed a long dynastic history, its postwar partition was particularly traumatic. The ensuing Cold War years spawned the Korean War and subsequent decades of strained inter-Korean relations and tensions in the region surrounding the peninsula. This volu…
The Japanese mafia - known collectively as yakuza - has had an extensive influence on Japanese society over the past fifty years. Based on extensive interviews with criminals, police officers, lawyers, journalists, and academics, this is the first academic analysis in English of Japan's criminal syndicates. Peter Hill argues that the essential characteristic of Japan's criminal syndicates is…
Contents: 1. The way we are 2. Constitution and administration 3. The legal system 4. Implementation of the Sino-British Joint declaration 5. The economy 6. Financial and monetary affairs etc.
In a rare combination of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japanese history in its entirety to identify the factors underlying the nation's progression to superpower status. Japan's achievement is explained not merely in economic terms, but at a more fundamental level, as a product of historical patterns of response to circumstance. Japan is shown to be a n…
This newly revised volume drawn from Professor Hane’s classic text, Japan: A Historical Survey, presents a rich account of early Japanese history for students. Important elements of early Japanese history persist in present-day Japan more tenaciously than is sometimes realized. Hane traces the key developments of Japanese history in the premodern period, including the establishment of the imp…
The Lone Samurai is a landmark biography of Miyamoto Musashi, the legendary Japanese figure known throughout the world as a master swordsman, spiritual seeker, and author of The Book of Five Rings. With a compassionate yet critical eye, William Scott Wilson delves into the workings of Musashi's mind as the iconoclastic samurai wrestled with philosophical and spiritual ideas that are as relevant…
Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times traces the principal threads of Japan's political and cultural life from early times through the mid-twentieth century. In an informative and engaging narrative, the author presents a carefully balanced and authoritative picture of Japan's transformation from a secluded, little known and backward country, with a fundamentally "Eastern" culture, to one of t…