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Article: The Japan Handbook.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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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 Japan had passed through a cataclysmic economic change but three decades previously. Modes of assessment of Japan have now changed, and since then a library of tomes has appeared on Japan's ...