History Best Japanese History books to compliment each other? (Ancient and Modern Japan)

[astarisborn94]

I've decided over the holiday to purchase some Japanese history 「日本語」 books to read. Cambridge is out of reach since I have no desire to pay an extremely high amount for books, so I've decided to settle on getting two books; one that focuses on ancient Japan and one that focuses on modern Japan.

For Modern Japan, I have decided to get The Making of Modern Japan by Marius S. Jansen. As for Ancient Japan, I am thinking about the first two books of History of Japan by George Sansom. I have liked what I have seen when I checked it out of my school library, though the book is dated. Nevertheless, is it still best to get these books or are there better ones out there? Note that I am looking for a comprehensive understanding of Japan and not just mention of what happened.

 

[Raven Bo]

There's all kind of science such as dating, digs, and genetics that come to play in last few years so I suggest ignore any books more than couple years old.

I have gathered up lots of info and made few outlines of world and Japanese history. :
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History is written by winners and often they are distorted propaganda. My short less biased history from japan's perspective including slight conspiracies theories from around 1600.

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