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The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is a collection of short biographies ofordinary Japanese men and women most of them unknown outside their family andlocality whose lives collectively span the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Their stories present a counterweight to the prevailing stereotypes providingstudents with depictions of real people through the records they have leftrecords that detail experiences and aspirations. The Human Tradition in ModernJapan offers a humanscale perspective that focuses on individualsreconstitutes the meaning of peoples experiences as they lived through themand puts a human face on history. It skillfully bridges the divides between thesexes between the local and the national and between rural and urban as wellas spanning crucial moments in the history of modern Japan. The Human Traditionin Modern Japan is an excellent resource for courses on Japanese history EastAsian history and peoples and cultures of Japan. «
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