What to Read After Inventing Japan
Readers who loved Inventing Japan by Ian Buruma keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Inventing Japan is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Inventing Japan
Shutting out the sun
Embracing Defeat
Dogs and Demons
The Making of Modern Japan
Japan, a modern history
Forbidden Nation
The Japanese mind
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
The enigma of Japanese power
A modern history of Japan
Pink samurai
A Hundred Years of Japanese Film
Wabi Sabi
In the realm of a dying emperor
Putin country
Wrong About Japan
The Middle East
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
The wealth and poverty of nations
Nordic Theory of Everything
What went wrong?
Natasha's Dance
Age of ambition