Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 by Ian Buruma

Inventing Japan: 1853-1964

Modern Library Chronicles #11

Ian Buruma

194 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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