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Conflict and Change: Foreign Ownership and the Japanese FirmBy George Olcott. Cambridge University Press, 2009, 279 pages including index, ISBN 978-0-521-87870-8. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi.
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The Great Power Struggle in East Asia, 1944-50, Britain, America and Post-War RivalryBy Christopher Baxter. In the series Global Conflict and Security Since 1945, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 250 pages including endnotes, bibliography and index, ISBN: 978-0-230-20297-9, £55. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi.
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