"When Japan opened up to the outside world and the "enlightened government" (Meiji) was established by order of the Emperor, the country, hitherto closed in on itself and essentially cut off from the Western world, begins to make abundant use of its teachings and carries out an intensive modernization campaign unprecedented in world history. Over the course of decades, Japan has moved from the medieval era to the modern era, with little or no intermediate stages, transforming its political, commercial, legal, military, cultural and social structures, demolishing its old traditional society from top to bottom." (excerpt from the introduction)
Published by the State Publishing Institute, 1988.
Format: 245 x 170 mm, 259 pages.
Hardcover, cloth covered with a paper wrapper.
Piece in very nice condition (with slight rubbing of the wrapper).
