Japan ponders the good life: Improving the quality of Japanese cities

Japan at the Millennium: Joining Past and Future

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 193-221

  Edgington, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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