Publisher Description
LA Times Book Award winner and expert on the past and present Japan, Ian Buruma examines the transformation of a country. Following Japan’s history from its opening to the West in 1853 to its hosting of the 1964 Olympics, Buruma focuses on how figures such as Commodore Matthew Perry, Douglas MacArthur, and Emperor Mitsushito helped shape this complex country.
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“Island countries tend to conserve national identities in much stronger way. A good narrative of a complex society that has gone through so many transformations and cultural change in recent history, and yet how and why the society retains fine aspects of old traditions.”
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Aeby (4 out of 5 stars)
