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THE Japanese claim that their empire was founded by the first Emperor Jimmu Tennō, 660 B.c., and that the dynasty founded by him still reigns. From 1186 until 1867 the emperors remained in a spiritual seclusion while
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Books of Reference concerning Japan
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Akagi (R. H.), Japan’s Foreign Relations, 1542–1936. London, 1936.
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Barton (H.), Japan since 1931. New York, 1940.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1950). Japan. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270794_42
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