A BRIEF HISTORY OF JAPANESE CIVILIZATION Author:Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, Suzanne Gay This balanced account of Japanese history focuses on developments in art, religion, literature, and thought as well as economic, political, and social history. The author, who has studied and conducted research at The Kyoto University Institute for Humanistic Studies since 1967, offers a clear, consistent, and highly readable text accessible to ... more »students with no previous knowledge of Japan.« less