The End of the War: The Atom Bomb & Japan’s Capitulation
Characterised by wars, crises and disasters, the years between 1914 and 1945 are considered the ‘German chapter’ in the…
Japan
Butterfly’s Sisters: The Geisha in Western Culture
The figure of a geisha can be troubling to Westernised eyes. Yoko Kawaguchi, the author of Butterfly’s Sisters: The…
‘Bonsai: A Patient Art’. A collection of living Bonsai masterpieces from the renowned collection of the Chicago Botanic Garden
Bonsai: A Patient Art, published by Yale University Press, presents a collection of living Bonsai masterpieces from the…
Author Article by Lyric Hale: Minamata Meets Fukushima – Why Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Isn’t Over
In the next instalment of her regular column, top economic commentator and What’s Next? author Lyric Hale discusses the chaotic aftermath of…
Author Article By Evan Mawdsley: Countdown To Global War, Part Two – 5 November 1941
In the second in our three-part series Countdown to Global War, Evan Mawdsley, author of December 1941 discusses…
Books on Japanese art, fashion and photography
Last month Yale published Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, a fascinating look at…