Understanding Modern Japan Dennis Nickson Much of the book comprises

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Understanding Modern Japan Dennis Nickson Much of the book comprisesThis work takes the reader from pre modern times to the development of Japan within the Asia Pacific and the wider global political system, and finally to the current economic crisis in the region. It maps Japan's shift into the modern world within the wider dynamics of political cultural and geo economic change in the developing global system and traces Japan's development through its distinctive historical phases. The major issues in the study of