Inventing Japan 1853-1964
New York, NY, USA: Modern Library, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. “In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular..... More
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