Japan. History and culture: from samurai to manga

Japanese culture entered our modernity deeply enough so that we no longer perceive the delivery of land for dinner as something exotic. But did you know that the Japanese initially did not eat sushi as the main dish, only as a snack? We habitually call Japan the country of the rising sun - but as a result of which it has such a name? And what path did the empire go over its more than a thousand -year history?
American Nancy Stalker, a professor at the History Faculty of Hawaiian University in Manaa, wrote more than one book about Japan. But, perhaps, now you have the most detailed and at the same time concise, well -structured story about all stages of Japanese history and stages of cultural development in chronological order. This book is quite academic to rely on it in specialization in oriental studies, and is so clearly and vividly written that it will be interesting to any reader who, for one reason or another, attracts the country of the rising sun