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[S]weeping and vigorously told....seems bound to become the standard for a generation of students of Japan....What sets Mr. McClain's work apart from so many others, however, is the abundance of voices from ordinary people, the deft use of art, from ancient poems to modern novels and cinema, and especially his consideration of the lives of women, a subtheme through the book."James L. McClain is the author of 'Japan: A Modern History', published 2002 under ISBN 9780393977202 and ISBN 039397720X.
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