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A brief history of japan audiobook by jonathan clements. China rewrites history books to extend sinojapanese war. In the early 2000s, even though the company no longer produces china, its wares are still available in abundance on the resale market. From 1937 to 1938, imperial troops massacred up to 300,000 residents of chinas former capital city nanjing also written nanking. Boasting 1,000 years of history, seto ware dates back even further.
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