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A HISTORY OF JAPAN: From Stone Age to Superpower. By Kenneth G. Henshall. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1999. xvi, 242 pp. US$45. 00, cloth. ISBN 0-312-21986-5.
The last several decades have seen unprecedented changes in the demographics of secondary and post-secondary student populations throughout the English-speaking world. In addition, students and educators have given a great deal of scrutiny and thought to the type of information that is requisite of a complete and well-balanced education. It is gradually becoming the consensus that some degree of knowledge about Asia is relevant to all students - particularly when it comes to one of its most celebrated and, at times, most infamous members: Japan. Feelings about Japan have always run deep, especially in the United States and the British Commonwealth, where the legacy of Japan's persistent desire...