G. Cameron Hurst
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Professor, Japanese and Korean Studies; Director, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1969β95. Author of Insei: Abdicated Sovereigns in the Politics of Late Heian Japan, 1086β1185 and many others.
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Japan, island country lying off the east coast of Asia. It consists of a great string of islands in a northeast-southwest arc that stretches for approximately 1,500 miles (2,400 km) through the western North Pacific Ocean. Nearly the entire land area is taken up by the countryβs four main islands;β¦
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