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Japan Story

In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Japan Story written and read by Christopher Harding.

This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

It is told through the eyes of people who greeted this change not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's modernizers and nationalists, but with resistance, conflict, distress.

We encounter writers of dramas, ghost stories and crime novels where modernity itself is the tragedy, the ghoul and the bad guy; surrealist and avant-garde artists sketching their escape; rebel kamikaze pilots and the put-upon urban poor; hypnotists and gangsters; men in desperate search of the eternal feminine and feminists in search of something more than state-sanctioned subservience; Buddhists without morals; Marxist terror groups; couches full to bursting with the psychological fall-out of breakneck modernization. These people all sprang from the soil of modern Japan, but their personalities and projects failed to fit. They were 'dark blossoms': both East-West hybrids and home-grown varieties that wreathed, probed and sometimes penetrated the new structures of mainstream Japan.

'How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and, above all, how very much I enjoyed it ... Masterly.' Neil MacGregor

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How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and, above all, how very much I enjoyed it.

Although the broad outlines of the story were familiar (as they will be to every reader) almost all the more detailed information was new to me. I thought the book was masterly in the intermeshing of the personal and the political, the quotidian and the spiritual, the psycho-analytic with the journalistic, the long-historical with the contemporary, and everywhere finding and highlighting the poetic and the aesthetic.

(Neil MacGregor)
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I learned and discovered so much, from new writers and painters to the history of Wagyu and Astro Boy. Highly recommended reading for those interested in a complex, nonbiased view of the modern history of Japan.

Fantastic, if a bit dense.

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Kept me very engaged throughout. I'm glad Chris chose to include such an array of interesting Japanese terms (with English definitions of course). His pronunciation is also fantastic.

As someone who has self-taught themselves and been reading/watching native Japanese content for a few years now, listening to this has been a real breath of fresh air.

It managed to fill a lot of gaps in my knowledge of Japanese history and tie a lot of concepts and ideas that have floated in my head over the years. I feel much more informed and ready to tackle tougher materials after this.

Thanks Chris! And once again truly a superb performance :)

I'm so glad I bought this book

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Well written modern history of Japan, with emphasis on the pop culture. Brought alive by the many relevant side stories.

Superb!

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When I chose this book, I was surprised to find it a story of Japan, largely through the lens of psychoanalysis, but actually it works very well. It was an extremely effective device to getting you inside the heads of a distant people that many of us know little about. Read by the author, very clearly and easy to listen to. Well worth the time.

Unlikely premise, but very well executed

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fascinating insight into the formation of modern Japan. interesting how pressure form America and China formulated the problems.

Fornation of modern Japan

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