{"product_id":"9780141985374","title":"Japan Story : In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and, above all, how very much I enjoyed it ... Masterly.' Neil MacGregor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is told through the eyes of people who greeted this change not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's modernizers and nationalists, but with resistance, conflict, distress. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe encounter writers of dramas, ghost stories and crime novels where modernity itself is the tragedy, the ghoul and the bad guy; surrealist and avant-garde artists sketching their escape; rebel kamikaze pilots and the put-upon urban poor; hypnotists and gangsters; men in desperate search of the eternal feminine and feminists in search of something more than state-sanctioned subservience; Buddhists without morals; Marxist terror groups; couches full to bursting with the psychological fall-out of breakneck modernization. These people all sprang from the soil of modern Japan, but their personalities and projects failed to fit. They were 'dark blossoms': both East-West hybrids and home-grown varieties that wreathed, probed and sometimes penetrated the new structures of mainstream Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52302791737655,"sku":"EB_HI0900_C04-04_DHS","price":75.5,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9780141985374-1.jpg?v=1783095674","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9780141985374","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}