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Are there historical reasons for many of Japan's major settlements, such as Kyoto and Tokyo, being located on Japan's Pacific coast and facing away from their closest sources of trade (mainland Asia)? What are these reasons?
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Given that post-WW2 history is still within living memory, what major events/developments in this era can we point to and say: our understanding of it now differs completely when compared to our understanding of it at the time as documented in the media and popular discourse? How/why has it changed?
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