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A Traveller's History of Japan

by Richard Tames · 1993

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A Traveller's History of Japan not only offers the reader a chronological outline of the nation's development but also provides an invaluable introduction to its language, literature and arts, from kabuki to karaoke. This clearly written history explains how a country embedded in the traditions of Shinto, shoguns and samurai has achieved stupendous economic growth and dominance in this century.

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