The story of modern Japan, from first 'opening' to the West with Admiral Perry's Black Ships in 1853, through World War II, to Japan's emergence as a Western-style democracy and economic power at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
- ISBN10 0753819759
- ISBN13 9780753819753
- Publish Date 2 June 2005 (first published 1 January 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 February 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 176
- Language English