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Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo. By Janet Borland. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2020. xvii, 330 pp. ISBN: 9780674247833 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2021

L. Halliday Piel*
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Lasell University
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Book Reviews—Northeast Asia
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021

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