Japan

This Japan CD contains 32 classic works of fiction, history, and religion, plus the Japan Country Study and the CIA World Factbook.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books (except for the World Factbook) are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

The "Country Studies" were published as printed books by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress between 1987 and 1995 under a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army.

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Complete Table of Contents:

• Country Study
• Japan (1994)
• CIA World Factbook (with maps, flags, and up-to-date information on every country in the world). This is an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents. You should open it with your Web browser.
• Country list
• Other files
• Japanese History
• Around the World on a Bicycle, volume 2 from Teheran to Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
• The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
• Constitution of Japan 1889 (short)
• Constitution of Japan 1946 (short)
• The Consitutional Development of Japan 1853-1881 by Toyokichi Iyenaga
• Evolution of the Japanese by Sidney Gulick
• Farmers of Forty Centuries or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan  by F.H. King
• Foundations of Japan by J.W. Robertson Scott
• Lafcadio Hearn
• Books and Habits from the lectures of Lafadio Hearn
• Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan
• first series
• second series
• In Ghostly Japan
• Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
• Kokoro: Japanese Inner Life Hints
• Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
• Notes of a War Correspondent by Richard Harding Davis [including the Russo-Japanese War]
• Noto, an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell
• Peeps at Many Lands: Japan by John Finnemore
• Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs by J.M.W. Silver
• Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, an Account of Travels in the Interior including Vicits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrine of Nikko by Isabella Bird
• Under the Dragon Flag, My Experiences int he Chino-Japanese War by James Allan, 1898
• Japanese Literature and Religion
• Ars Grammaticae Iaponicae Linguae, (in Latin), 1632
• Botchan by Kin-nosuke Natsume, translated by Yasotaro Morri
• Bushido the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
• Japanese Fairy Tales
• Japanese Literature, Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan, edited by Epipahnius Wilson
• The Religion of the Samurai by Kaiten Nukariya
• The Religions of Japan by William Elliot Griffis, 1895
• Tales of Old Japan by Lord Redesdale, 1910
• Western Novels about Japan
• The House of the Misty Star, a Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan by Fannie Caldwell Macaulay, 1915
• Mr. Bamboo and the Honorable Little God, a Christmas Story by Fannie Caldwell Macaulay
• The Japanese Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins, 1912