# Inventing Japan

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- Book: [Inventing Japan](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-buruma/inventing-japan) ([Inventing Japan.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-buruma/inventing-japan.md))
- Authors: [Ian Buruma](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-buruma)
- Publisher: modern_library
- ISBN: 978-08-1297-286-3
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2004-11-09
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known....