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'The purpose of his excellent short book is to argue its way - wittily, incisively - through the period from 1853 (Commodore Perry's arrival with his "black ships" from America, bent on forcibly opening up Japan) to the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, which heralded Japan's emergence into the dignity, and prosperity, of the post-war revival ... Buruma is very good at crisply making plain the falseness of many assumptions about Japan' Anthony Thwaite, Sunday Telegraph .
'Synthesises the best of recent scholarship with shrewd insights gained in more than quarter of a century of close experience of Japanese ways' Colin Donald, Scotsman. 'Buruma is the Westerner who understands Japan best. He has all the natural gifts historians need: a vivid eye for evidence, a masterful way with voluminous data, a real feel for what makes people tick, an unerring instinct for what one might call the importance of the trivial.
His pages come alive with brilliant insights from popular culture and revealing anecdotes of picaresque life' Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Sunday Times