The Complete Beginner's Guide to Japan
The Complete Beginner's Guide to Japan
The Imperial History, Culture and Society
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Sign in or Sign up!- Release Date: 12/05/2025
- Barcode: 9781917259149
- Genre: Non-Fiction
- Sub-Genre: History

The Complete Beginner's Guide to Japan
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The Imperial History, Culture and Society Take a journey into the history of this fascinating island nation and discover someof the people, events and beliefs that have shaped the Land of the Rising Sun. In the beginning, the story goes, two gods conjured the islands out of primordial cha-os with the tip of a sacred spear. The ‘Great Eight-Island Country’, Japan has alwaysfollowed its own unique path, often alone through centuries of deliberate isolation. Contact and conflict with other nations has often taken the form of flashpoints ofsocial and technological shock: firearms, trade ships electric light and atom bombs.Yet despite the challenges that have beset it from outside and from within, Japan hasmaintained and expanded its singular and compelling culture for thousands of years. Today Japan is a key player on the world stage, a technological powerhouse, and anicon of non-aggressive international policy. Amid its hi-tech cities, ancient shrines callthe faithful to venerate heavenly gods and the spirits of the land. Glittering technological marvels vie with traditional folklore; culinary practices and ceremonies to beguilevisitors; and ancient buildings still hide in the shadows of the new.
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