If there's room in your life for just one general history of Japan, let this be the one. In the hands of a master, history becomes art. British scholar-diplomat Sir George Bailey Sansom (1883-1965 ...

Tracing Japan’s story from its prehistoric beginnings around 14,500 BCE to its rise as a cutting-edge modern nation, the new release “The Shortest History of Japan” by author Lesley Downer offers ...

JUDGE WICKERSHAM'S THEORIES Thinks that the Forefathers of the Prehistoric American Races Were Mongolians -- He Proposes to Write a Book. Share full article July 21, 1895 ...

Books Author explores how ancient dilemmas are echoed in the modern world In “The Shortest History of Japan,” Lesley Downer presents a fresh perspective on Japan’s 2,000-year national story.

From the late prehistoric Jōmon culture in Japan, which extends approximately from 14,000 to 400 BCE, numerous small humanoid figurines have been found, known as dogū (literally, clay figure).. They ...

J ust when you thought the battle over Japan’s wartime history couldn’t get any weirder, a best-selling author was forced to issue a denial about a previous denial — in his own book – that ...