Japan: A History 9781640190979, 164019097X

Here is the story of Japan - from the mythological explanations of its birth to the rise of feudal overlords, from its i

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Japan: A History
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Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and t

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To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regar

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This is a straightforward narrative of the development of Japanese civilization from 1334 to 1615 by the author of Japan

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Japan: A Short Cultural History was first published in 1931 by the Cresset Press in London and D. Appleton in New York.

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Japan's catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the

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In this second volume of his classic history Dumoulin turns his attention to the development of Zen in Japan.

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