Bill Emmott

The reinvention of a nation

When, in 2020, Tokyo hosts the summer Olympics, will one of Japan’s 70,000 centenarians carry the flame?

issue 17 November 2018

  • Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present

    Christopher Harding

    Allen Lane, pp. 504

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