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Review of Stranger in the Shogun’s City by Amy Stanley

Review of Stranger in the Shogun’s City by Amy Stanley

February 17, 2023

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Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and her World. Amy Stanley. New York: Scribner, 2020. ISBN-13: 9781501188527.

Reviewed by Jonathan Dresner, Pittsburg State University, Kansas

Edited by Birgit Schneider

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