Japan: The Story of a Nation [4. ed.] 0075570742, 9780075570745

This text chronicles the evolution of premodern (early A.D. to 1850), modern (1850-1945), and postwar (1945-1989) Japane

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Japan: The Story of a Nation [4. ed.]
0075570742, 9780075570745

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