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Article: Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopaedia.
- Article from:
- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
- Author:
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That hoary old chestnut about the 'inscrutable Japanese' must surely now be laid to rest -- squashed beneath this mammoth two-volume reference work. The Japanese must in fact now be among the most scrutable -- indeed, transparent -- races on earth. The nine-volume Kodansha Encyclopaedia of Japan, which this encyclopaedia both draws on and improves upon, was billed as 'the most comprehensive work of reference ever devoted to a single nation'. Whether or not this is the case, the Anglophone reader now has immediate access to virtually any fact that she or he might ever wish to know about Japan, in a splendidly up-to-date and accessible publication.
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