num_pages: 264
description: In a rare combination of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japanese history in its entirety to identify the factors underlying the nation's progression to superpower status. Japan's achievement is explained not merely in economic terms, but at a more fundamental level, as a product of historical patterns of response to circumstance. Japan is shown to be a nation historically impelled by a pragmatic determination to succeed. The book also highlights unresolved questions and little-known facts.
language: English
title: A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower
titlecomplete: A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower
genres: Asian Literature, Historical, History, Japanese History, Japan, Asia, Japanese Literature, Essays, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 757
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan