Take a visual journey to Japan's vast northern island of Hokkaido. This stunning guide covering all the places foreign and Japanese tourists alike find so fasci

Japanese people have lived on the country's other three main islands--Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku--for many centuries, but ethnic Japanese, or Wajin, began comi

A biography of diplomat William Smith Clark, an exponent of the modernization of Japan in the nineteenth century and founder of the University of Massachusetts

New from Bradt is the first-ever, standalone English-language guide to Hokkaido, Japan’s second-largest island and northernmost prefecture. Home to under 5% o