Bestselling Japan Audiobooks

The last installment of the War in the Far East trilogy, Asian Armageddon 1944-1945, continues and completes the narrative of the first two volumes, describing how a US-led coalition of nations battled Japan into submission through a series of cataclysmic encounters....

Japanese mythology offers a fascinating lens from which to gaze upon the natural world....

Firsthand accounts from Japanese WW II soldiers, sailors, and pilots who fought in the battle for Iwo Jima and survived. Some were evacuated before the Marines landed, and others were taken as prisoners of war....

A revealing and controversial account of the events surrounding Pearl Harbor....

Dive into Japanese history—and discover who the samurai really were—in this fascinating study that reveals the flawed human warriors behind the idealistic myths.

With updates from the author, this is a concise overview of Japan’s turbulent Age of Warring States....

A stirring narrative of World War II's final major battle—the Pacific war's largest, bloodiest, most savagely fought campaign—the last of its kind....

March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to fight and with jobs scarce at home, Tom Phelps found work as a carpenter in the goldfields of the New Guinea Highlands....

If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Japan, then pay attention.... All in all, Japan seems to be a country of paradoxes and oppositions, of yin and yang....

In the midst of the largest banzai attack of the war, US Army Lt. Col. William O'Brien, grievously wounded and out of ammunition, grabbed a sabre from a fallen Japanese soldier and flailed away at a small army of assailants....

Stuart Goldman convincingly argues that a little-known, but intense, Soviet-Japanese conflict along the Manchurian- Mongolian frontier at Nomonhan influenced the outbreak of World War II and shaped the course of the war....

China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history....

In this scholarly study, Charles Stephenson describes the political, diplomatic, and military build-up to the Soviet offensive and its decisive outcome....

At 11.02 am on an August morning in 1945, America dropped the world's most powerful atomic bomb on the Japanese port city of Nagasaki. This unique book weaves together a vivid picture of defeat, endurance and survival against astonishing odds....

Whirlwind is the only book to examine in depth the human drama behind the most important bombing campaign in history....

In Japan, a gang of a different breed would arise - one underscored by honor, respect, family, and a code of ethics. They are the Yakuza....

Two Japanese naval aviators who participated in the operation provide an unsparing analysis of what caused Japan's staggering defeat....

A concise historical overview of the evolution of cha-no-yu - that uniquely Japanese ritual, the tea ceremony - and how it was used in Japan by the shoguns....

With a bright, conversational narrative by Thomas Cleary, this book is indispensable to corporate executives, students of Asian culture, martial artists, or anyone sincerely interested in Japan and its people....

A gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the American ambassador who attempted to stop the slide to war....