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Volume II of a six-volume study of the history of contemporary Japan. Written by leading academicians, 20 essays cover topics including changes and continuities

The publication in 1992 of Miyabe Miyuke’s highly anticipated Kasha (translated into English as All She Was Worth) represents a watershed in the history of Ja

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This classic introduction to the Japanese political system has been revised and updated to take the account of a time of turmoil in the country's political life