By Susan B. Hanley
While others have used source of revenue degrees to finish that the japanese loved ones used to be particularly terrible in these centuries, Hanley examines the cloth culture—food, sanitation, housing, and transportation. How did usual humans preserve the constrained assets to be had during this small island state? What meals made up the day-by-day vitamin and the way have been they ready? How have been human wastes disposed of? How lengthy did humans dwell? Hanley solutions a lot of these questions and extra in an available variety and with common comparisons with Western life. Her tools permit for cross-cultural comparisons among Japan and the West in addition to Japan and the remainder of Asia. they are going to be worthy to someone attracted to the consequences of modernization on day-by-day life.
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