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Harvard East Asian Monographs 194

Minamata

Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan

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$29.95 • £26.95 • €27.95

ISBN 9780674007857

Publication Date: 03/21/2002

Short

424 pages

6 x 9 inches

2 maps, 34 halftones, 1 line drawing, 6 tables

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