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Modern Japan : a historical survey

Peasants, rebels, women, and outcastes : the underside of modern Japan

Uses diaries, memoirs, fiction, trial testimony, personal recollections, and eyewitness accounts to weave a fascinating tale of what ordinary Japanese endured throughout their country's booming economic growth.This social history uses diaries, memoirs, fiction, trial testimony, personal recollections, and eyewitness accounts to weave a tale of what ordinary Japanese endured throughout their country's era of booming economic growth. Rescuing vivid, often wrenching accounts of peasants, miners, textile workers, rebels, and prostitutes, Mikiso Hane forces us to see Japan's modern century (from the beginnings of contact with the West to the outset of World War II) through fresh eyes. In doing so, he mounts a challenge to the success story of Japan's economic miracle.

Modern Japan [electronic resource] : a historical survey

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