Inventing Japan: From Empire to Economic Miracle, 1853-1964 by Ian Buruma

Inventing Japan: From Empire to Economic Miracle, 1853-1964

Modern Library Chronicles #11

Ian Buruma

162 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Ian Buruma, who Felipe Fernandez-Armesto has described as having ‘A vivid eye for evidence, a masterful way with voluminous data, a real feel for what makes people tick, an unerring instinct for what one might call the importance of the trivial’ p...

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