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Remembering Japan: A bilateral history

Remembering Japan: A bilateral history

January 7, 1998 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Washington Quarterly

“But the essence of a nation is that all the individuals share a great many things in common, and also that they have forgotten some things.” —Ernest Renan, What is a Nation?, 1881 A little more than a year ago,…

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