A History of Japan - Revised Edition

In this revised edition of their classic work, the best one-volume to the history of Japan in English, Mason and Caiger trace the enthralling evolution of modern Japan from its early pre-history through the post-Cold War period to the collapse of the Bubble Economy in the early 1990s. New findings shed additional light on the origins of Japanese civilization and the birth of Japanese culture. Not merely a chronology of wars, imperial successions and treaties, this book provides an in-depthg analysis of the religion, culture and arts of the Japanese people from the 6th century BC to the present. An essential text in Japanese studies...