A review by mikefromco
A History of Japan: Revised Edition by R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger

medium-paced

2.0

This really should have been titled “A Concise Cultural History of Japan” because wow does it skip over a lot of elements well spending a just enormous amount of time discussing poems, art, and Buddhism (but weirdly forgets about it after about 1750). 

I wasn’t a fan and feel that this is a piece of historical work that has become too historical in and of itself with the last updates concerning the mid 1990s.