"Lucid and lyrical...a vivid History of Japan\'s turbocharged (and painful) modernization." --The Daily Telegraph In A History of Modern Japan , cultural historian Christopher Harding delves into the untold stories of Japan\'s recent history--from a pop star\'s nuclear power protest song in 2011, to Japanese feminists who fought for an equal political voice in the 1890s.
Though highly successful, and typically portrayed as a unified effort, Japan\'s rebuilding througho. "Lucid and lyrical...a vivid History of Japan\'s turbocharged (and painful) modernization." --The Daily Telegraph In A History of Modern Japan , cultural historian Christopher Harding delves into the untold stories of Japan\'s recent history--from a pop star\'s nuclear power protest song in 2011, to Japanese feminists who fought for an equal political voice in the 1890s