Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool

Japanese culture has penetrated our modernity deeply enough that we no longer perceive the delivery of sushi for dinner as something exotic. But did you know that the Japanese didn't originally eat sushi as a main course, only as an appetizer? We habitually call Japan the Land of the Rising Sun - but as a result of what did it get such a name? And what path did the empire as a whole go through in its more than a thousand-year history? American Nancy Stalker, a professor at the Department of...