Harvard University. Council on East Asian Studies

Heinz Morioka

Miyoko Sasaki

Rakugo is the traditional Japanese art of storytelling. The stories are also called rakugo, or hanashi, and they are performed by professional narrators called rakugoka or hanashika. The customary place where rakugo stories are told is the vaudeville-type variety called the yose.

Rakugo, the Popular Narrative Art of Japan

John W. Dower

John K. Dower

This detailed biography of Japan's Postwar prime minister has had a favorable reception in the United States and has sold widely in translation in Japan.

Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878-1954

Empire and Aftermath

Alexander Woodside

Here is the first real comparison of the civil governments of two traditional East Asian societies on an institution-by-institution basis. Woodside examines in detail the surviving statutes of both societies in his political and cultural study, a pioneering venture in East Asian comparative history.

Harvard University. Council on East Asian Studies

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