
History of Japan
A Captivating Guide to Japanese History, Including Events Such as the Genpei War, Mongol Invasions, Battle of Tsushima, and Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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James Peters
If you want to discover the captivating history of Japan, then pay attention...
Japan is one of the most adaptable countries in the world. It is capable of very rapid change, even after crises that would halt the progress of other nations. When the shogunates collapsed in the 17th century, the feudal system disintegrated. Within a year’s time, though, railroads replaced ox carts. During World War I, a first-rate economy sprung up on deserted farmlands. During World War II, the modest islands of Japan burgeoned into an empire with one of the most powerful navies in the world. After the devastation of that world war, Japan emerged as one of the most modern countries in the world. The Japanese have survived frequent earthquakes and tsunamis and rebuilt their cities using enviable technologies.
The Japanese progressed throughout the eras because of the emperor, but they also progressed despite him. These are people who never let go of their sacred history, and their story is told and retold in art, film, literature, and even graphic novels across the entire world. Terms such as shoguns, samurai, haiku, anime, and manga are familiar to many in the Western world today. Westerners also learn flower arranging, martial arts, meditation, and enjoy a variety of visual and digital art forms because of the unique culture of Japan.
In History of Japan: A Captivating Guide to Japanese History, Including Events Such as the Genpei War, Mongol Invasions, Battle of Tsushima, and Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, you will discover topics such as:
- Children of the Sun
- Warring clans
- The two imperial courts
- Edo Japan: part one -1603 to 1638
- Edo Period: part two -1638 to 1868
- The Meiji restoration
- Japan in World War II and its aftermath
- And much more!
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The narrator was alright but it was very distracting the handful of times that an edit was clearly warranted but missed. I am not certain who is to blame as I do not know if this was a small-scale recording process that was entirely created and submitted by the performer or if this was a multi-person production splitting the recording, editing, approval, and submission between multiple people and/or departments. Either way, someone didn't do their job as several times during the recording you can hear the narrator stop and re-state a line, make some kind of environmental noise, or even once or twice lean back from the mic and audibly cough. It's not like this recording cost $40 so it's not the end of the world but also... this wasn't a 40-hour recording. I listened to this whole thing in an afternoon and anyone with 15 minutes of trained skills could have done that once and used free audio editing software to cut out the mistakes before publishing. The cost of fixing this problem would have been half of a day's wages from any entry-level employee. Let's not let this problem become common nor let this become a justification for A.I. audiobook performers in the future.
decent & informative - minor audio mistakes
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Pronunciation problems
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Comprehensive
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A good introduction
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Clarity
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A pleasure to listen to and will again!
Informative & Appropriately Condensed
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Very Informative
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Great work
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They also completely omitted Japan’s annexation of Korea and rape of Korean women, dedicating a whole of 1 minute during the last 15 minutes of the book. This alone makes the book unreliable and biased. They don’t even mention the authors, but whoever they are don’t know much about Japan’s history or do not want to contend with Japan’s war crimes. They included a lot about China, but nothing about Korea, only vaguely referencing its interests in Southeast Asia.
There is distracting poor grammar, microphone sounds, repeated sentences, and even a pause where the narrator coughs, which were oversights by the editors. Grammar example: “Part of the reason was due to the Americans finding it difficult or just didn’t care enough to distinguish between civilians and soldiers.” The cough is when there’s 2h51m left.
Overall, get a different book or simply read Wikipedia. Captivating History has some good titles, like the Mexican Revolution, but they didn’t care about putting any effort into the history of Japan.
Intellectually Dishonest and Lazy
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