BookDragon Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 Tag

28 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Japanese, Nonfiction, Repost

From Commodore Perry’s “opening” of Japanese ports to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics when the Japanese shocked the world by winning 16 gold medals, a lively look at the rise of modern Japan. Review: <a href="http://bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/asianweek-2003-02-28-new-and-notable-books.pdf"...