TWIB II-16: 1/14-1/20
Jan. 31st, 2008 04:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akujunkanI only read one book that week, but at least it was a pretty dense one.
1) Japan Rising – Kenneth Pyle
Japan Rising is an exhaustive historical look at the development of Japanese foreign policy from its infancy to the present day, written by one of the leading experts on the country. Pyle does have a bit of an agenda, and his book essentially sets out to prove that Japanese policymakers are realists, and reactive ones at that. While this does blinker his focus, keeping Japan Rising from being a well rounded study, Pyle supports his thesis convincingly enough. Readers should be prepared, however, for flagrant misuse of the word “flounder,” which someone ought to remind Mr. Pyle is a type of a fish, and not a verb.
That will be all.
1) Japan Rising – Kenneth Pyle
Japan Rising is an exhaustive historical look at the development of Japanese foreign policy from its infancy to the present day, written by one of the leading experts on the country. Pyle does have a bit of an agenda, and his book essentially sets out to prove that Japanese policymakers are realists, and reactive ones at that. While this does blinker his focus, keeping Japan Rising from being a well rounded study, Pyle supports his thesis convincingly enough. Readers should be prepared, however, for flagrant misuse of the word “flounder,” which someone ought to remind Mr. Pyle is a type of a fish, and not a verb.
That will be all.