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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year

The second edition of the book that provides a unique integrated analysis of Japan's social, political, and economic history from 1932 until the present day.

As they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors describe an ongoing historical process marked by unexpected changes, such as Japan's extrao

In the wake of the Second World War, internationalists identified science as both the cause of and the solution to world crisis. Unless civilization learned to

Japan and the United States became close political allies so quickly after the end of World War II, that it seemed as though the two countries had easily forgot