A Modern History of Japan can be recommended for anyone interested in getting a deeper understanding of Japan's successes and failures as it has sought to become a modern state and society. Gordon ...

Books of Interest Fred Grant at Vicksburg: ... Book Review: Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853-1945 . Archives. Latest; ... takes a deep look at the history and evolution of the Imperial ...

'Pacific Overtures' isn't one of Stephen Sondheim's most famous musicals, but the story it tells -- of the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry's Black Ships in July 1853 and the opening of Japan to ...

The Yasukuni Shrine is dedicated to about 2.5 million people who have died in Japan's conflicts between 1853 and 1945. Their names are inscribed in the shrine's Book of Souls, and venerated as ...