Ten Years in Japan is a fascinating and unique look inside the government of Japan before and during the attack on Pearl Harbour. Written from the detailed personal diaries of Joseph C. Grew the American ambassador based in Tokyo from 1932 and up until war was declared in the beginning of 1942. This book deals, as is right and proper, primarily with American-Japanese relations. But for British readers it has a special interest because it covers a period during which British and American policies in the Orient followed parallel lines; a period when the two Governments were grappling with problems always similar and sometimes identical. The interest is not lessened by the peeps that we get of what were, in fact, unremitting efforts on the part of the Japanese to sow discord between Britain and America on the principle of 'divide et impera.'

America’s Ambassador to Tokyo for the ten years before Pearl Harbor tells the full story of how and why America went to war with Japan. He draws that story from three first-hand sources: his own day-to-day diaries, his personal and official correspondence, and his dispatches to the State Department. From this huge mass of material, he has woven together a chronological narrative of history in the making. President Hoover sent Ambassador Grew to Japan in 1932 because he needed the best diplomat we had to save a desperate situation. The Japanese militarists had already seized Manchuria. They had assassinated half a dozen outstanding moderate statesmen. They were preparing to quit the League, scrap Washington Treaties, and dominate Asia and the Far Pacific. Ambassador Grew’s mission had two purposes. One was to uphold American rights in the Far East. The other was to avoid war. The attitude of the Japanese made it impossible for the U.S. to pursue both these policies indefinitely, but Ambassador Grew’s diplomacy postponed the showdown, preserved the peace, and upheld America’s national honor. Ten Year in Japan tells for the first time the full, inside story of the decade of conflict, intrigue, and surprise that culminated in the inevitable tragedy of war.

In October 1943 a small group of Mongolian pilgrims set off westward from Inner Mongolia. Before them lay a confused battleground where the Japanese and rival armies of Chinese and Mongolians fought over the fate of Central Asia. Among the pilgrims was a young monk named Dawa Sangpo beginning what was probably the greatest travel adventure undertaken by anyone of his nationality in this century; for he was not Mongolian at all, but an enterprising Japanese named Hisao Kimura.

Part 50 Shades of Grey, part Purple Rain, The Eternal Outsider is an erotic true story about one man¿s whimsical journey to the fourth largest city in Japan. When Trevor¿s efforts to bring emotion to an emotionless society gets lost in translation, he is given fifteen minutes of fame as a consolation prize. However, with this new found notoriety came unheralded street fights, near death experiences, sold out concerts, magazine covers, billboard ads, and of course the excessive amount of women, including a ¿lovesick¿ model who suffers from an acute memory lapse, an emotional Japanese Jazz singer¿and then there¿s his withdrawn wife, who one afternoon found the courage to plead with his addictive girlfriend to dissolve their secret rendezvous for the sake of their two children. Notably, one of the finest love stories ever told¿revealing, shocking, sometimes witty and vividly unforgettable.Visit the dark side of Japan without actually leaving your house. Japan; arguably the most mysterious and cultural enigmatic place on Earth. Japan.It¿s not what you think it is¿