This fascinating History tells the Story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion.
It was the terminus of the Silk Road, the furthest end of the known world,.
First revealed to Westerners in the chronicles of Marco Polo, Japan was a legendary faraway Land defended by a fearsome Kamikaze storm and ruled by a divine sovereign.
This fascinating History tells the Story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion
