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		<title>What If Japan Had Remained Isolationist?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 01:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction by Donald Keene:As someone who has spent a lifetime immersed in the soul of Japanese literature, I have often reflected not just on what Japan has been, but on what it could have been. The beauty of history lies not only in facts, but in its silences—those unwritten chapters where another choice was possible. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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