tokugawa period, 1600-1868

Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported to seventeenth century Japan where they infuriate a Samurai warrior, encounter their great-grandaughters, and save their lives by reciting an ancient form of poetry.

Orphaned by a ninja pirate attack off the coast of Japan in 1611, twelve-year-old English lad Jack Fletcher is determined to prove himself, despite the bullying of fellow students, when the legendary sword master who rescued him begins training him as a samurai warrior.

Jack Fletcher's warrior training is put to the test when Japan is threatened with war, and he comes face-to-face with his greatest enemy, ninja Dragon Eye.

Returning home to investigate the possible connection of his family's tea shop with smugglers, Seikei, now a samauri in eighteenth-century Japan, becomes involved in murder at a local puppet theater and saving the life of his sister's accused boyfriend.

Presents the history of Japan from the arrival of the first Europeans in the sixteenth century to its mid-twentieth century development into a leading industrial nation.

Samurai Seikei and Judge Ooka, his foster-father, search for seven men who have seven parts of a map tattooed on their backs, but when they put the pieces of the map together, Seikei and Judge Ooka learn of a dangerous location.

An exploration of the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu that discusses his founding of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, influence on the Japanese way of life, family, legacy, death, and much more.

When a strange disease called the Red Pox preys on the men of Edo-period Japan, the male population falls drastically, causing women to take on traditional male roles, including that of Shogun, to whom the most beautiful men are sent to serve.

Discusses modern Japan's evolution over three centuries and chronicles the country's history from 1912 to the 1990s.

Presents a collection of black-and-white photographs, memoirs, school textbooks, diaries, and eye-witness accounts of the history of Japan from the first western visitors in 1542 through the twentieth century.