Renaissance Books Publisher Description
Renaissance Books is an academic publisher offering a new, robust and independent platform for peer-reviewed scholarship on Asia Pacific, in particular East Asian Studies – principally in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our books are published to the highest standards of production and design, and we count amongst our published authors some of the leading names in their fields.

Beginning in 2021, Renaissance Books was acquired by Amsterdam University Press, a scholarly publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Books
Books in JSTOR from Renaissance Books
51 Books in JSTOR Copyright Date
A.B. Mitford and the Birth of Japan as a Modern State: Letters Home 2017
The Abe Experiment and the Future of Japan: Don't Repeat History 2016
Accessing Technical Education in Modern Japan 2022
Across the Three Pagodas Pass: The Story of the Thai-Burma Railway 2013
Anjin - The Life and Times of Samurai William Adams, 1564-1620: As Seen Through Japanese Eyes 2016
Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits 2015
Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. X: Biographical Portraits 2016
British Extraterritoriality in Korea 1884 – 1910: A Comparison with Japan 2021
British Foreign Secretaries and Japan, 1850-1990: Aspects of the Evolution of British Foreign Policy 2018
British Royal and Japanese Imperial Relations, 1868-2018: 150 Years of Association, Engagement and Celebration 2019
The Call of Japan: A Continuing Story-1950 to the Present Day 2020
Cantankerous Essays: Musings of a Disillusioned Japanophile 2015
Carmen Blacker: Scholar of Japanese Religion, Myth and Folklore: Writings and Reflections 2017
China’s Naval Operations in the South China Sea: Evaluating Legal, Strategic and Military Factors 2018
Consul in Japan, 1903-1941: Oswald White's Memoir 'All Ambition Spent' 2017
Culture, Power & Politics in Treaty Port Japan, 1854-1899: Key Papers, Press and Contemporary Writings: Volume 1: Historical Perspectives 2018
Early Japanese Trade, Administration and Interactions with the West 2020
Early Photography in Vietnam 2020
Georges Bigot and Japan, 1882-1889: Satirist, Illustrator and Artist Extraordinaire 2018
The Ghost of Namamugi: Charles Lenox Richardson and the Anglo-Satsuma war 2019
The Growing Power of Japan, 1967-1972: Analysis and Assessments from John Pilcher and the British Embassy, Tokyo 2015
A History of Discriminated Buraku Communities in Japan 2019
The History of Manchuria, 1840-1948, Vol. I & II: A Sino-Russo-Japanese Triangle 2016
The History of the Fujiwara House: A Study and Annotated Translation of the Toshi Kaden 2020
An Image of the Times: An Irreverent Companion to Ben Jonson's Four Humours and the Art of Diplomacy 2015
Isabella Bird and Japan: A Reassessment 2017
The Japanese and German Economies in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Business Relations in Historical Perspective 2018
Japanese Studies in Britain: A Survey and History 2016
Korea 1905–1945: From Japanese Colonialism to Liberation and Independence 2021
Kyoto’s Renaissance: Ancient Capital for Modern Japan 2020
Letters to Another Room 2013
A Life of Sir Harry Parkes: British Minister to Japan, China and Korea, 1865-1885 2021
Magnolia: A Novel 2015
Mediating Empire: An English Family in China, 1817-1927 2020
My Korea: 40 Years Without a Horsehair Hat 2013
My Shanghai, 1942-1946: A Novel 2015
Northern Light: Norway Past and Present 2019
Olonkho: Nurgun Botur the Swift 2014
The Paintings of Korean Shaman Gods: History, Relevance and Role as Religious Icons 2018
The Private Diplomacy of Shibusawa Eiichi: Visionary Entrepreneur and Transnationalist of Modern Japan 2018
Rhythms, Rites and Rituals: My Life in Japan in Two-step and Waltz-time 2015
Richard Sorge, the GRU and the Pacific War 2021
The Rise and Evolution of Meiji Japan 2019
The State of the Japanese State: Contested Identity, Direction and Role 2018
Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan 2020
The Thames and I: A Memoir of Two Years at Oxford 2019
Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line 2011
Towards Japan: A Personal Journey 2020
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Revisiting Isabella Bird 2020
A Unique Banchado: The Documentary Painting of King Jeongjo’s Royal Procession to Hwaseong in 1795 2017
US-Japan Human Rights Diplomacy Post 1945: Trafficking, Debates, Outcomes and Documents 2021