Títulos em Ásia

関東の戦国覇者、北条氏。初代宗瑞の登場から五代氏直の秀吉との東西決戦まで、民政で独自の手腕を見せ、一族が結束して支配を広げた屈指の戦国大名の実像に迫る。

日本史を振り返ると、天皇は、政治の表舞台での主役として、また政治的な実権を失ったときは名目上の権力者として、この国に関わってきた。明治憲法の下では統治権を総攬する君主として、そして日本国憲法

平安中期、幼少の天皇に代わり、外戚の藤原氏が摂政・関白となって政治を行う体制が成立した。その最盛期を迎える藤原道長の時代に至る歴史を、歴史物語「大鏡」を軸に、平易な語り言葉で述べる。

Unforgiving Destiny follows the true story of the 37-year pursuit by authorities on five continents to imprison and execute David McMillan as he travelled as an independent smuggler. Dogged by an obsessed DEA agent, he evades the death penalty in Thailand by escaping prison, only to be "disappeared" in Pakistan after crossing the Afghan border. After every downfall, McMillan rebuilds his life and network only to find the same agency people arranging capture by any means.

The Hindu epic poem Mahabharata by itself is 10 times longer than both the Iliad and Odyssey combined. In this volume, you will discover how the storm god Indra defeated the demon Vritrasura, and how Indra came to respect Vritrasura even though he had to kill him; how King Yayati had to choose between honoring his oath to his father-in-law on the one hand and the Dharma on the other, and what consequences came of his decision; and more.

In 2017, the Defense Intelligence Agency began to produce a series of unclassifed Defense Intelligence overviews of major foreign military challenges we face. This volume provides details on China’s defense and military goals, strategy, plans, and intentions; the organization, structure, and capability of its military supporting those goals; and the enabling infrastructure and industrial base. This product and other reports in the series are intended to inform our public, our leaders, the national security community, and partner nations.

India es un país repleto de misterio, riqueza y profundo descubrimiento espiritual. Cada faceta de esta antigua tierra parece perfumada con las famosas especias que atrajeron a los comerciantes europeos a sus costas hace más de cinco siglos. Aquí, musulmanes, hindúes, cristianos, sikhs y budistas viven hombro con hombro en un mundo repleto de múltiples dioses y rutas de peregrinación yuxtapuestas, cada una perfectamente pacífica en sus propias creencias y tradiciones.

江戸時代に各地を治めていた藩主は、明治四年の廃藩置県によって国元から切り離されて強制的に東京住まいとなった。戊辰戦争で勝った大名も負けた大名も一緒くたに、領地は没収され、家臣は解散させられた

昭和史研究の第一人者・半藤一利が、最後に日本人に伝え残したかったこととは――。太平洋戦争を理解する上で欠かせない「名言」の意味とその背景を、著者ならではの平易な文体で解説し、

Between December 13, 1937, and the beginning of February 1938, Japanese soldiers entered the Chinese city of Nanjing, following a very brief fight for the city. For over six weeks, they committed some of the worst atrocities, first against the Chinese soldiers after they surrendered, then against the civilians. The Westerners who did not flee from the city prior to the Japanese arrival set up a safety zone in the weeks leading up to the Imperial Army entering the city. This was the only place where there was relative safety.

To most people in the West, particularly the youth, the mere mention of Japan immediately evokes various images. A delectable rainbow of sushi, hand-rolled temaki, and platters of crispy, golden-brown tempura. An idyllic, crystal-clear lake flanked by trees covered with delicate, cotton-candy-pink sakura blossoms.

江戸時代に各地を治めていた藩主は、明治4年の廃藩置県によって国元から切り離されて強制的に東京住まいとなりました。戊辰戦争で勝った大名も負けた大名も一緒くたに、領地は没収され、家臣は解散させられた

A story of a young woman left behind and a young reporter coming of age in a world of war; a gripping memoir of Cambodia and Vietnam in the 1970s. As brutal wars in Cambodia and Vietnam come to swift and cataclysmic ends, a young reporter plans a last minute rescue of a woman he loved. The rescue fails.

日本をつくり、救った28人の日本人、日本の国体、国柄を成立、存続させた超人（ルビ・カリスマ）たちの偉業を見よ！国の礎を築いた――仁徳天皇　日本が日本になったときの大政治家――聖徳太子

Le Bushi, c'est le samouraï, le soldat du Moyen Age japonais. le Bushidô est un code de conduite, l'ensemble des valeurs que ce chevalier d'Orient était censé respecter. Pour l'auteur de cet ouvrage, Inazo Nitobe, c'est aussi le fond culturel et moral du Japon tout entier, la colonne vertébrale de la mentalité nipponne.

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 Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first best-selling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation.

＜放浪＞の中に生き己を表現した林芙美子。青春の蹉跌を北の大地に癒した石川啄木。 各地の名勝を発掘した放作家の草分け大町桂月。

「私は、いろいろな懊悩、いろいろな煩悶、そういうものに苦しめられると、いつもそれを振り切って旅へ出た。

From its terrifying opening to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time.

One of the most important and memorable events of the United States’ westward push across the frontier came with the discovery of gold in the lands that became California in January 1848. Located thousands of miles away from the country’s power centers on the East Coast at the time, the announcement came a month before the Mexican-American War had ended.