Jesse’s Book Review – Tokyo East Waves By Mitsugu Ohnishi
The credence, nothing last forever, certainly rings true here. For Japan, a country who has wrestled with the idea of its own identity since the Meji Restoration, this book comes at the end of another era two periods later at the end of the Showa era…and more specifically its coinciding and concluding point, the bubble economy.
Throughout this time that saw rapid industrialization, imperialism, and an economic miracle the dichotomy remained between Japanese-ness and the westernization. Similarly Russia always carried this two…
