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040			_aPPAK _beng _cPPAK _erda
082	0	4	_223 _a952
090	0	0	_a952 _bREI _dG
100	1		_aReischauer, Edwin O., _q(Edwin Oldfather), _d1910-1990. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aJAPAN : _bTHE STORY OF A NATION / _cEDWIN O. REISCHAUER
250			_aTHIRD EDITION
264		1	_aNew York : _bALFRED A. KNOPF, _c1981
264		4	_c©1970
300			_axiii, 428 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aBibliographical: page 403-410
520			_aIn this major revision of his classic history of Japan'from the tribally divided state under the leadership of Yamato in the fifth century through centuries of dynastic rule to the death of Emperor Hirohito in 1989'the eminent Harvard historian and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer incorporates nearly a decade's worth of new scholarship. His book is divided into three parts: the first part examines traditional Japan from the early Chinese influences to the flowering of a native culture and the establishment of a feudal system and society; the second looks at Japan in transition from the beginnings of the modern state to the rise of militarism and the advent of World War II; the third section, extensively rewritten to reflect Japan's drastically changed role in world affairs since 1984, deals with postwar Japan from the American Occupation and years of political division and instability to Japan's gradual metamorphosis into an economic giant. The Nakosone and Takeshita years are discussed at length, and the transformation of Japan's economy, hinged upon surging exports to the West, is analyzed. Clear, concise, and enormously informative, Reischauer's Japan: The Story of a Nation encompasses political, social, economic, and cultural history in a superbly readbable narrative
651		0	_aJapan _xHistory
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