The Japan Handbook.(Review)(Brief Article)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: May 1, 1999| Author: Lamont-Brown, Raymond | Copyright information

Patrick Heenan, editor. Regional Handbooks of Economic Development: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. [pounds]35.00. 350 pages. ISBN 1-57958-055-6.

In 1904 Basil Hall Chamberlain, Emeritus Professor of Japanese and Philology in the Teikoku Daigaku (Imperial University, Tokyo), published his handbook, Things Japanese. It was to have a wide readership and introduced many to Japanese history and culture for the first time. Economics as a subject received not a mention although J...

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