Christopher Harding

Christopher Harding is a British author, academic, and cultural historian specialising in Japan and South and East Asian culture. He is a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and has written extensively about the intersection of psychology, religion, and cultural change. Japan Story is his sweeping cultural history of modern Japan, exploring how the country has understood and reinvented itself from the samurai era to the present day. The book weaves together personal stories with broader cultural currents. His audiobooks and books are fascinating listening and reading for anyone interested in Japanese history, culture, and the forces that shaped modern Japan.