Inventing Japan
Subtitle: 1853-1964 (Modern Library Chronicles)
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: November 9, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780812972863
Subjects: History: World; History; History - General History; Asia - Japan; History / Japan; 1868-; Histoire; Japan; Japon; Restoration, 1853-1870
First sentence: When Commodore Matthew ("Old Matt") Calbraith Perry sailed into Edo Bay on July 8, 1853, with four heavily armed ships, on a mission to open up Japanese ports to American ships, he could be forgiven for thinking the Japanese were an ignorant people.