A magical cultural history of modern Japan.
Christopher Harding teaches at the University of Edinburgh and frequently broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4.
How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and, above all,
how very much I enjoyed it.
Although the broad outlines of the story were familiar (as they
will be to every reader) almost all the more detailed information
was new to me. I thought the book was masterly in the intermeshing
of the personal and the political, the quotidian and the spiritual,
the psycho-analytic with the journalistic, the long-historical with
the contemporary, and everywhere finding and highlighting the
poetic and the aesthetic.
*Neil MacGregor*
Elegantly written and compelling history of Japan's past century
and a half
*Spectator*
Lucid and lyrical ... delivered with his flair for storytelling ...
one of the best accounts I've
ever read of what happens - for better and worse - when a country's
relationship with the world is abruptly renegotiated.
*Telegraph*
Richly embroidered, well-written text ... you will profit
considerably from reading Japan Story.
*Literary Review*
A fresh, detailed, intimate, witty, and captivating tour across the
evolving landscape of Japan over the past hundred and fifty years
... told with compassion and with a storyteller's wit and
wisdom.
*Books and Bao*
Magisterial
*Tatler*
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