Japan and the Wider World

<p>Akira Iriye assesses Japan's international relations from a Japanese perspective in the century and a half since she ended her self-imposed isolation and resumed her place in the international community. The book is the author's own adaptation of two highly successful short studies up to and after 1945 that he wrote for Japan. It ends with a consideration of Japan's international relations since the end of the Cold War and her place in the world today. This is history written from within - and there could be no better interpreter of Japan to the West than this most distinguished of historians who himself Japanese has long lived and taught in the United States.</p>