Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 by Donald Keene

Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912

Donald Keene

928 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in the main, cut off from the outside world, staunch...

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