Mokusei! Regional & national history contributors to this volume are

contributors to this volume are Geoffrey Batchen

and adapted ceremonies to the distinct regional cultures

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this 70-cm-long model is easy to put together

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Mokusei! Regional & national history contributors to this volume areTwo men talk in Tokyo. One, a Belgian, is a diplomat. The other, Dutch, is a photographer. What, they wonder, is the real face of Japan? How can they get beyond the European idea of the nation and its peoplewith its exoticismand see Japan as it truly is? The Belgian has an idea: he helps the photographer find a model to shoot in front of Mount Fuji as the typical Japanese. The plan works better than either had imaginedin fact, it works too well: the