Reassesses conventional understanding of Japan’s Asia-Pacific War by defamiliarizing and expandin...

The Arts of Governance offers a global history of the creation, uses, and adaptations of the poli...

Written by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion, Lords of Life is the fifth and last ...

The first edition of Nā Inoa Hōkū, published in 1975, reignited global interest in Hawaiian and P...

Speak American explores how language tied together race, power, and citizenship in Territorial Ha...

In an era marked by geopolitical fragmentation and global crises, how can we envision a more stab...

This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study reassesses South Korea’s tumultuous era of authorita...

This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study reassesses South Korea’s tumultuous era of authorita...

Lu Xun (1881-1936), generally considered modern China’s most important writer of fiction, social ...

Each Other’s Destiny presents stories of contemporary Cambodians who remember past lives and expl...

The twelfth century was a pivotal time in Japan's history. It witnessed intense factionalism at t...

In Thailand, divination is a key instrument of power. In earlier times, kings deployed astrology ...

Give Us Our Blue Skies Back traces one of Japan's earliest and most enduring environmental moveme...

Provides a comprehensive overview of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism. Chinese Pure Land Buddhism has p...

From Race to Ethnicity

'Hyakunin'shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan explores the 'popular literary literac...

Jakarta, one of the largest metropolitan areas in Southeast Asia, has grown from 150,000 resident...

This anthology of Buddhist texts in translation provides a framework that will transform contempo...

Turning Toward Edification

Unpredictable Agents

Draws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jodo Shin...

Voices Beyond the Grave uncovers critically understudied histories of Japanese internment and lab...

This collection of eleven essays explores emotions and affect in Korean culture across a broad te...

The exploration and settlement of the Pacific Island world is one of the most remarkable achievem...

Yi Kyubo (1168–1241) was the foremost writer and poet of the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392). Not Everyt...

The Traffic in Hierarchy

'Reframing Disability in Manga analyzes popular Japanese manga published from the 1990s to the pr...

Time and Language

Recovers the essential but unrecognised roles of Buddhist temple bells in the history of art, rel...

'Nåa ho°onanea o ka manawa, translated as Pleasurable pastimes, is a delightful collection of tal...

Negotiations of the Sacred offers a fresh perspective on one of Japan’s most famous festivals, th...

Emplacing East Timor explores the relationship between the cycle of regime change and that of kno...

In Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away, Robert Cribb and Sandra Wilson tell the st...

Everyone knows that meditation is good for your health and wellbeing. However, a percentage of pe...

'Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Arti...

This title gives us the many captivating stories behind the hundreds of Hawai'i place names assoc...

Using a variety of local documents to analyse the veneration of yonaoshi gods, Takashi Miura look...

Observances, Feasts, and Scripts is the first monograph written in English to offer a comprehensi...

'Land of Plants in Motion is the first in any language to examine two companion stories: (1) the ...