Pure Invention

How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World

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Matt Alt: Pure Invention (2020, Crown Publishing Group, The)

English language

Published April 29, 2020 by Crown Publishing Group, The.

ISBN:
978-0-593-23674-1
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4 stars (6 reviews)

6 editions

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4 stars

Filled with funny anecdotes and awesome behind-the-scenes stories of some of your favourite products from Japan, Matt Alt engages with his storytelling skills (and prodigious one-liners) to give us a popular history of post-war Japan through the products we interact with.

[BONUS: As a pop history this book is excellent, but I think it struggles with the political analysis. I nitpick that a bit here: chadkohalyk.com/2020/10/27/pure-invention/]

Subjects

  • Popular culture
  • Japan, history

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