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Nov 26, 2020
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The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
By Christopher Harding
Allen Lane, £25, hardback, 528 pages
The people included in this look at the lives of 20 of Japan’s most notable characters – monk Shinran, leader Hojo Masako, diplomat Hasekura Tsunenaga among them – are not, it’s fair to say, household names, but historian and broadcaster Christopher Harding brings
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