How long does it take to read The Rise of Modern Japan?
Political, Economic and Social Change Since 1850
W. G. Beasley
The Rise of Modern Japan by W. G. Beasley takes about 5 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 54 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1990. 322 pages, about 88,550 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"This book covers the history of Japan from the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day. It charts the spectacular rise of Japan - a society which leapt in little more than a generation from late feudal to early industrial forms of organisation - an exceptionally disturbing experience for the Japanese as they left left behind the traditional and Asian and moved toward the modern and Western." "It examines the turbulent thirties and an Empire won and lost between 1937 and 1945, and investigates the major changes after 1945 including the astonishing economic growth that has been achieved since the 1950s. This new edition covers the dramatic political upheavals of the 1990s."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History, Japan, Civilization, Japan, economic conditions, Japan, politics and government, Japan, social conditions
