Inventing Japan, 1853-1964 - Modern Library Chronicles Strand Critics Award Nominee for Best Novel (2014) and thrives amidst nuclear radiation

and thrives amidst nuclear radiation

have nothing in common beyond the methods they have been taught to distance themselves from other people

When it comes to noir

Meridon dedicates herself to freeing them both from danger and want

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Inventing Japan, 1853-1964 - Modern Library Chronicles Strand Critics Award Nominee for Best Novel (2014) and thrives amidst nuclear radiationIn a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japans history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that essentially supplanted the British, French, Dutch, and