Japanese Power
Richard Bowring, 14 June 1990
God’s Dust: A Modern Asian Journey
by Ian Buruma.
Cape, 267 pp., £12.95, October 1989,0 224 02493 0 Show More
by Ian Buruma.
Cape, 267 pp., £12.95, October 1989,
The Cambridge History of Japan. Vol V: The 19th Century
edited by Marius Jansen.
Cambridge, 828 pp., £60, October 1989,0 521 22356 3 Show More
edited by Marius Jansen.
Cambridge, 828 pp., £60, October 1989,
The Cambridge History of Japan. Vol. VI: The 20th Century
edited by Peter Duus.
Cambridge, 866 pp., £60, June 1989,0 521 22357 1 Show More
edited by Peter Duus.
Cambridge, 866 pp., £60, June 1989,
“... that produced such dire results in 19th- and 20th-century Europe, as Buruma and, especially, Peter Dale, author of The Myth of Japanese Uniqueness, have done? Or should we take it all with a pinch of salt? The position of those who take up an adversarial stance and invoke the direst of scenarios is fraught with difficulties. The Japanese can always ... ”
