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Inventing JapanInventing Japan

Inventing Japan

1853-1964 (Modern Library Chronicles)

Ian Buruma

3.8(5)on Hardcover

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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.

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OL Work ID
OL119111W

Subjects

Japan, history

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