Last week's post was a pretty long read, so this week I'm going to give your eyeballs a rest and offer you something to listen to instead: the introduction to Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present, from the Penguin audiobook.
Read by yours truly!
As any author foolhardy enough to include the phrase "the present" in one of their books will know, there is always a risk of things becoming slightly out of date. Thankfully, nothing too dramatic has happened in or to Japan in the last seven years, bar of course Covid and the shock assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzō Abe.
So I hope you'll enjoy, and I'll be back this time next week.
