In researching a paper on Japanese History (and learning that one
doesn't _really_ want to know about what they did in the feudal
period), I came across a HIGHLY informative book, published by the US
Gov't Library of Congress, that had history, stats, and everything you
could possibly want to know, except how to eat sushi. ^_^  Sadly, it
was the 1972 version, but the history part was still good.

A 1994 version is available online here:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/jptoc.html

This is the outline, and you MUST have Adobe Acrobat Reader to read
the files, unless there's something else that reads *.pdf files?
(Don't e-mail the list about this!)

I hope this helps someone!

Alandra.


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