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The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives Santana " the record might seemTwo thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals. Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. These vivid and entertaining portraits take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of the current empress, Masako. We encounter shamans and warlords,