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Changing Japanese Life

The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama A lovely, lovely sad but good novel. From the title you have probably already guessed it is based in Asia – Japan to be exact. This is a novel of the … Continue reading

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Cultural Education circa 1920s Japan

December 6 by Martin Cruz Smith The date of the title, and the cover’s image of the “rising sun” Japanese flag give away the time and place of this book. But it isn’t set on that date, rather it is … Continue reading

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