Protecting the face of the state: Japanese high school history textbooks and 1945

Functions of Language

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-35

  Barnard, Christopher ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84989383910     PISSN: 0929998X     EISSN: 15699765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/fol.7.1.02bar     Document Type: Article

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