Volume 29, Number 6 · April 15, 1982
The Lowest Depths
By E.J. Hobsbawm
Peasants, Rebels, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan
by Mikiso Hane
Pantheon, 297 pp., $20.50; $9.95 (paper)
The tourist industry makes its living from the fact that Florence is unlike Milwaukee (except in the provision of hotels and services which visitors from Milwaukee will find acceptable). But how important is it for the historian of modern industrial society to bear in mind that the Japanese are unlike, say, the Italians?
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