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Japan Story - In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present (Paperback)
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Japan Story - In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present (Paperback)
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This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the
'opening up' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the
present. 'How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and,
above all, how very much I enjoyed it ... Masterly.' Neil MacGregor
It is told through the eyes of people who greeted this change not
with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's modernizers
and nationalists, but with resistance, conflict, distress. We
encounter writers of dramas, ghost stories and crime novels where
modernity itself is the tragedy, the ghoul and the bad guy;
surrealist and avant-garde artists sketching their escape; rebel
kamikaze pilots and the put-upon urban poor; hypnotists and
gangsters; men in desperate search of the eternal feminine and
feminists in search of something more than state-sanctioned
subservience; Buddhists without morals; Marxist terror groups;
couches full to bursting with the psychological fall-out of
breakneck modernization. These people all sprang from the soil of
modern Japan, but their personalities and projects failed to fit.
They were 'dark blossoms': both East-West hybrids and home-grown
varieties that wreathed, probed and sometimes penetrated the new
structures of mainstream Japan.
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