Trans Pacific Press

Founded in 1999, Trans Pacific Press is a publisher of English scholarly books in the Humanities and Social Sciences with a focus on Japan and Asia.

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"The Stripper Goddess of Japan" is the first complete English translation of Ame no Uzume den (1991).
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"The Stripper Goddess of Japan" will be released TODAY. We hope you enjoy reading this book!

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The book is an attempt to explore how writers of Bengal in British India, also travelogue writers, nationalists and cultural enthusiasts from this part of British India have tried to represent the politics and culture of Japan during that period.

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Japan and Bengal: Exchange and Encounter (1893-1938) by Banerjee, Pratyay (Ph.D Jadavpur University, India)

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Japan’s radical development following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, drew the attention of India. It is well-known that Bengal-born Rabindranath Tagore, the winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, visited Japan quite a few times.

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Through the pictures available in the book, readers can see the landscape of time through Hiroshige’s eyes and experience his connection to scenery.

This is a 264 page book availabel in both Harcover and Paperback.

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"Utagawa Hiroshige, Seeing landscapes through his eyes", by ABE Mika is a seminal work about changes in Japan's landscapes during the late Edo period.

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This book explores Hiroshige’s views of the landscape through his ukiyo-e work Ehon Edo Miyage (Edo Souvenirs), published from 1850 to 1867, while placing considerable emphasis on the analysis of Hiroshige’s text, which is often neglected by art historians.

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If you are interested in Japanese pop culture, its effects on Korean society and how cultures can be accepted transnationally, notwithstanding a ban, this book will fulfill your appetite.

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"Postwar South Korea and Japanese Popular Culture" by KIM Sungmin

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The book cites numerous animated and visual works as examples to demonstrate that regardless of the prohibition, Japanese culture has been accepted into Korean society and continues to influence the relationship between the two countries.

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"Indonesia at the Crossroads:
Transformation and Challenges"
by OKAMOTO Masaaki

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"..I absolutely recommend this text for everyone looking to learn more about the sociopolitical inner workings of the world’s largest archipelago, fourth-most populous country and largest Muslim-majority country. No other book exists quite like it..."

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Jafar Suryomenggolo. another editor of the book, is associate member of Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE), Paris, France, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Jeonbuk National University, South Korea.