Japan World History

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    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

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    • Revised Edition
    • By: R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan....

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    • Facing History
    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
    • By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....

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    • By: Herbert P. Bix
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 29 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world....

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    • By: John Allyn, Stephen Turnbull - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 22-11-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • This is the definitive, fascinating account of this unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master....

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    • Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
    • By: Donald Keene
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 38 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Little has been written about the strangely obscured figure of Meiji himself, the first Japanese emperor ever to meet a European. But now, Donald Keene sifts the available evidence to present a rich portrait not only of Meiji but also of change during this period in Japan's history....

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    • The Last Train from Hiroshima
    • By: Charles Pellegrino
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • To Hell and Back offers listeners a stunning "you are there" time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino's scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written....

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    • The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
    • By: Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history....

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    • A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 14-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....

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    • The United States Marines Against Japan
    • By: Robert Leckie
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-2010
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • As scout and machine-gunner for the First Marine Division, Leckie fought in all its engagements until his wounding at Peleliu....

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    • The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II
    • By: Jeffrey Cox
    • Narrated by: Theodore O'Brien
    • Length: 22 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 21-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack, Japanese forces continued to overwhelm the Allies....

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    • The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai
    • By: Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Alexander Bennett - translator
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the Bushido code....

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    • By: Hiroaki Sato
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Legends of the Samurai, Hiroaki Sato confronts both the history and the legend of the samurai, untangling the two to present an authentic picture of these legendary warriors....

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    • The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August–October 1942
    • By: Jeffrey R. Cox
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 20 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were high....

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    • By: Mark E. Stille
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War details the Japanese ships which fought in the Pacific and examines the principles on which they were designed, how they were armed, when and where they were deployed, and how effective they were in battle....

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    • The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
    • By: Paul Kramer, Henry Pu Yi
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 27-01-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In 1908, at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty....

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    • Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
    • By: James M. Scott
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands....

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    • History of Imperial Japan's Mass Murder and Rape During World War II
    • By: Bryan Mark Rigg PhD, Andrew Roberts - foreword
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-2024
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Japan's Holocaust combines research conducted in over eighteen research facilities in five nations to explore Imperial Japan's atrocities from 1927 to 1945 during its military expansions and reckless campaigns throughout Asia and the Pacific.

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    • The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
    • By: John Toland
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 41 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 27-06-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire....

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