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Inventing Japan

July 9, 2011

Ian Buruma is author of Inventing Japan.

Japan made enormous strides toward modernization beginning in 1868. The Meiji Restoration was Japan's way of adapting Western technology for its own advancement. Ian Buruma charts both the positive and negative results of this strategy that led to both World War II and Japan's current status as an economic world power.

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Ian Buruma

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