"The Rise of Modern Japan"

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This paper provides a clear and comprehensive understanding of Japan's passage from a largely unknown agricultural state to a troubled economic superpower and traces the country's march toward modernity while emphasizing political and economic developments. The author of this paper finds the book, which contains a history survey and primary facts on Japan of the last 150 years, may not be well suited for the academic expert concerned with recondite theory or a reader in search of instant expertise.

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"Beasley's occasional difficulty balancing detail and generalization is a minor flaw in a work that usually provides convincing support for conclusions. His study is also one of the most up-to-date general treatment of modern Japanese history. Of course, newness for the sake of newness is not always an advantage. Beasley's concluding chapter 17, "The Postwar Pattern Unravels, 1989-1994," is really a fifteen-page chronology in narrative form that is largely free of any analysis of where the unraveling might deliver Japan. Drawbacks to the book are that the notes are few and lack the comprehensiveness necessary for the serious student."

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