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Inventing Japan

Ian Buruma

The fateful span of Japan's modern history, in which it has undergone as dramatic a transformation as any country has known.

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The story of modern Japan, from first 'opening' to the West with Admiral Perry's Black Ships in 1853, through World War II, to Japan's emergence as a Western-style democracy and economic power at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

 


"Buruma has provided a timely reflection on the unresolved conflicts at the heart of this modern state."

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Inventing Japan

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£12.99
Hardback
170 pages
198 x 132 mm
ISBN-10: 0753817683
ISBN-13: 9781842126875
Publication: September 2003
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