Here is a page-turning, compact history of Japan from earliest
times to the present, with a focus on its often tempestuous, often
creative relationships with other countries. The book ranges from
Japan's prehistoric interactions with Korea and China, to the
Western challenge of the late 1500s, the partial isolation under
the Tokugawa family (1600-1868), and the tumultuous interactions of
more recent times, when Japan modernized ferociously, turned
imperialist, lost a world war, then became the world's second
largest economy-and its greatest foreign aid donor. Writing in a
lively fashion, Huffman makes rich use of primary documents,
illustrating events with comments by the people who lived through
them: tellers of ancient myths, court women who dominated the early
literary world, cynical priests who damned medieval materialism,
travelers who marveled at "indecent" Western ballroom dancers in
the mid-1800s, and the emperor who justified Pearl Harbor. Without
ignoring standard political and military events, the book
illuminates economic, social, and cultural factors; it also
examines issues of gender as well as the roles of commoners,
samurai, business leaders, novelists, and priests.
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