- Social history, Economics, Toy industry, History
The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured—and transformed—the world’s imagination.
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Classical in form, epic, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Matt Alt
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 344
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, The, Random House Audio, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781472131874
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