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Japan's Decisive Decade: How a determined minority changed the nation's course in the 1950s
by Entwistle, Basil
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0901269859
- ISBN 13
- 9780901269850
- Seller
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About This Item
London, Grosvenor Books, 1985, hardcover, xv-190 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, 'Center for Asian Studies' neatly stamped on all 3 edges of text block, tidy inked number to front endpaper, tidy name and address stamp to half-title page. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, spine fading, light edge nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. This story of the unprecedentedly swift economic turn-around of Japan after her devastation and defeat at the end of WWII, credits not only the well-stated traditions, disciplines and economic advantages in the region, but tells the story of a small, determined minority of leaders who worked together to put their country back onto the world stage in a mere ten years. Illustrated with 16 black-&-white plates from photographs. Appended; Acknowledgements, Japanese names. Foreword by Toshiwo Doko, Index. ISBN 9780901269850
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- Bookseller
- West of Eden Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8465
- Title
- Japan's Decisive Decade: How a determined minority changed the nation's course in the 1950s
- Author
- Entwistle, Basil
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0901269859
- ISBN 13
- 9780901269850
- Publisher
- Grosvenor Books Usa
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1985
- Keywords
- 1945-; 1945-1989; Asia; Economic conditions; History; Japan
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