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Japan’s long history makes conceptualizing Japanese ‘leisure and life through the ages’ daunting. My solution is to limit the inquiry primarily to identifying strategies of leisure in the period that most historians agree coincides with the formation of Japan as a modern nation; that is, from the unification of the country under the Tokugawa military government in 1603 to the present, the period which is best documented and most relevant for understanding the trajectory of contemporary Japanese leisure.
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North, S. (2018). Strategies of Leisure in Japan. In: Modi, I., Kamphorst, T. (eds) Mapping Leisure. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3632-3_9
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