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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The Japan people admire and the Japan people actually live in are not always the same country.One runs bullet trains with extraordinary precision. The other relied on fax machines deep into the twenty-first century. One exports images of harmony, discipline, beauty, and technological brilliance. The other struggles with overwork, loneliness, rigid hierarchy, discrimination, historical denial, and institutions that resist change.Both versions are real.This book traces Japan from its prehistoric beginnings to the modern age, revealing how one of the world's most distinctive civilizations was built, broken, rebuilt, and repeatedly reinvented.Beginning with the Jomon people and the agricultural transformations that followed, G. J. Jackson explores the creation of the imperial system, the political use of mythology, the arrival of Buddhism, the influence of China and Korea, the rise of the samurai, the age of civil war, Tokugawa rule, forced contact with the West, the Meiji transformation, imperial expansion, the atrocities of war, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American occupation, and the postwar economic miracle.The story does not end in 1945.The book continues into the structures of modern Japanese life, examining social conformity, work culture, family expectations, criminal justice, martial arts, aesthetics, cities, anime, manga, video games, demographic decline, disaster resilience, and the tension between collective order and individual freedom.Along the way, it asks the questions that simpler accounts avoid: Why did a society shaped by cooperation also become so resistant to dissent?How did the emperor remain politically untouchable even when other men controlled the country?What did bushido actually mean before modern nationalism turned it into propaganda?How did Zen, Shinto, and Japanese aesthetics become global symbols while losing much of their original context?How did the same systems that created discipline, safety, loyalty, and extraordinary achievement also produce overwork, isolation, rigidity, and silence?This is not a travel guide, a celebration, or a cultural takedown. It is a serious, accessible examination of the machinery beneath the image.Japan is not timeless. Its traditions were built, challenged, revised, and sometimes invented by people responding to war, geography, foreign pressure, political ambition, natural disaster, and the constant need to survive.The result is a country capable of remarkable beauty and remarkable severity, often through the same institutions.To understand Japan, you have to stop choosing between admiration and criticism.You have to look at both. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798235459267
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The Japan people admire and the Japan people actually live in are not always the same country.One runs bullet trains with extraordinary precision. The other relied on fax machines deep into the twenty-first century. One exports images of harmony, discipline, beauty, and technological brilliance. The other struggles with overwork, loneliness, rigid hierarchy, discrimination, historical denial, and institutions that resist change.Both versions are real.This book traces Japan from its prehistoric beginnings to the modern age, revealing how one of the world's most distinctive civilizations was built, broken, rebuilt, and repeatedly reinvented.Beginning with the Jomon people and the agricultural transformations that followed, G. J. Jackson explores the creation of the imperial system, the political use of mythology, the arrival of Buddhism, the influence of China and Korea, the rise of the samurai, the age of civil war, Tokugawa rule, forced contact with the West, the Meiji transformation, imperial expansion, the atrocities of war, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American occupation, and the postwar economic miracle.The story does not end in 1945.The book continues into the structures of modern Japanese life, examining social conformity, work culture, family expectations, criminal justice, martial arts, aesthetics, cities, anime, manga, video games, demographic decline, disaster resilience, and the tension between collective order and individual freedom.Along the way, it asks the questions that simpler accounts avoid: Why did a society shaped by cooperation also become so resistant to dissent?How did the emperor remain politically untouchable even when other men controlled the country?What did bushido actually mean before modern nationalism turned it into propaganda?How did Zen, Shinto, and Japanese aesthetics become global symbols while losing much of their original context?How did the same systems that created discipline, safety, loyalty, and extraordinary achievement also produce overwork, isolation, rigidity, and silence?This is not a travel guide, a celebration, or a cultural takedown. It is a serious, accessible examination of the machinery beneath the image.Japan is not timeless. Its traditions were built, challenged, revised, and sometimes invented by people responding to war, geography, foreign pressure, political ambition, natural disaster, and the constant need to survive.The result is a country capable of remarkable beauty and remarkable severity, often through the same institutions.To understand Japan, you have to stop choosing between admiration and criticism.You have to look at both. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798235459267
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