With an illuminating commentary and unique range of primary source documents, James Huffman, H. Orth Hirt Professor of History, traces Japan’s history from its first encounter with Western culture to its pervasive influence in the world today in his new book Modern Japan: A History in Documents just released by Oxford University Press.
Memoirs, a diary, political speeches and an eyewitness account of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima are among the primary sources Huffman includes.
The book follows Huffman’s 2003 meticulously researched, A Yankee in Meiji Japan, which examined the evolution of Meiji, Japan (1868-1912), through the life of crusading journalist Edward H. House.
