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Inventing Japan

Inventing Japan

by IanBuruma (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 02 Jun 2005
ISBN 10: 0753819759
ISBN 13: 9780753819753
Book Overview: A highly-acclaimed author, reviews widely and has a high media profile Ian Buruma is one of Europe's most original thinkers Ian Buruma is uniquely qualified to write on Asia: he studied Chinese and Japanese literature and cinema in Holland and Japan, and has lived in Asia for a third of his life 'Distils 150 years of Japanese history into 150 pages, tells you all you need to know about what went wrong, right and then wrong again in that enigmatic but fascinating country, and offers some enjoyable tales' New Statesman 'An entertaining and bracing but learned essay on the state of Japan...It will serve as an antidote to our growing parochialism' Spectator

Author Bio
Ian Buruma was born in the Netherlands to a Dutch father and English mother in 1951. Though educated in both Holland and Japan, Ian Buruma spent a great portion of his life in Asia. He has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Institute for the Humanities in Washington, D.C.