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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
Sansom is fairly outdated these days, there is so much new research since his time that provides a much better picture of Japanese history.
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One of the problems is that such topics aren't normally best seller material, so there aren't very many non academic writers out there. By that, I mean writers for the general public rather than for purely academic readers.
I ran into this problem trying to find a good book on ancient Chinese history. An awful lot of the ancient history ebooks parrot back the local equivalent of George Washington and the Cherry Tree as fact. The best seem to have been written anywhere from the 1920's to the 1950's.