Positive take on Japan's supposed dark age (The Japan Times)

The Edo Period (1603-1868) is frequently regarded as a dark, repressive age, when Japan was held in an iron grip by a military government that had closed its borders to the outside world. "The Edo Inheritance" seeks to challenge and correct this slanted image. The author, Tokugawa Tsunenari, is the 18th head of the Tokugawa family, which set up and ran the shogunate that ruled Japan for over 250 ...