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What Is Japan?: Contradictions and Transformations

by Taichi Sakaiya

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Genres: Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS: 952 — History & geography History of Asia Japan
LCC: DS821 .S24213 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Japan

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Published: 1993
Genres: Nonfiction, History
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