Inventing Japan Ian Buruma

Name: Inventing Japan By Ian Buruma
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Inventing Japan by Ian Buruma

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Summary

The fateful span of Japan's modern history, in which it has undergone as dramatic a transformation as any country has known.

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Inventing Japan by Ian Buruma

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.

About Ian Buruma

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.

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Sku

GOR003475476

ISBN 13

9780753819753

ISBN 10

0753819759

Title

Inventing Japan by Ian Buruma

Author

Ian Buruma

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Orion Publishing Co

Year published

20050602

Number of pages

176

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