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Japan's merchant capital in the late sixteenth century, Osaka remained an industrial center into the 1930s, developing a distinct urban culture to rival Tokyo's. Osaka Modern maps the city as imagined in Japanese popular literature and cinemaas well as contemporary radio, television, music, and comedyfrom the 1920s to the 1950s.

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A Hardback by Michael P. Cronin

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    Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
    Publication Date: 27/02/2017
    ISBN13: 9780674975187, 978-0674975187
    ISBN10: 0674975189
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    Book Synopsis
    Japan's merchant capital in the late sixteenth century, Osaka remained an industrial center into the 1930s, developing a distinct urban culture to rival Tokyo's. Osaka Modern maps the city as imagined in Japanese popular literature and cinemaas well as contemporary radio, television, music, and comedyfrom the 1920s to the 1950s.

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