Reinventing Japan: From merchant nation to civic nation

Reinventing Japan: From Merchant Nation to Civic Nation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-253

  Takao, Yasuo ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230609310     Document Type: Book

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