Modern Library Chronicles: Inventing Japan : 1853-1964 (Series #11) (Paperback)

from dlovins

Small book, but with lots of interesting facts about Japan. For example, contrary to the assumption that Christianity had no appeal there, in fact it was spreading quickly to the point that in 1638 the Tokugawa bakufu felt it necessary to massacare Japanese converts, ban Christian books, and expe...

from dlovins

Small book, but with lots of interesting facts about Japan. For example, contrary to the assumption that Christianity had no appeal there, in fact it was spreading quickly to the point that in 1638 the Tokugawa bakufu felt it necessary to massacare Japanese converts, ban Christian books, and expe...

from Scapegoats

This is a very good overview of the political transformation of Japan from Commodore Perry's forcing it open in 1853 until the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. It focuses on politics, with the overall arguments that liberal democracy has never been part of Japan and that its constitutional system, both befor...