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Geisha of Gion: The True Story of Japan's Foremost Geisha (Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki)
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Imperial Hospitality
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire

chopsticks, paper lanterns, photographs of our unsmiling relatives back home in the village in their strange country clothes.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic

Is there any tribe more
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
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