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/]