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Walter Sobchak, Esq.'s avatar

Re: Japan. I highly recommend the 2024 version of Shogun. The scenery and acting are worth the price of admission. The Japanese cast, in particular Hiroyuki Sanada as Lord Yoshii Toranaga (the stand-in for Tokugawa Ieyasu founder of the eponymous dynasty), Anna Sawai as Toda Mariko (the translator), and Tadanobu Asano as Kashigi Yabushige, a subordinate samuri of Toranaga are just terrific. I think it gives a very good perspective on the motivations for Tokugawa policy.

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Read an essay last year by Patrick McKenzie on doing business in Japan and found it interesting and entertaining if nothing else. He recommends some books in the essay if one wants to understand Japan.

Essay: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/

A couple of the books he recommends: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Japanese-Society-Yoshio-Sugimoto/dp/1108724744/

https://www.amazon.com/Making-Common-Series-Institutional-Studies/dp/0822955105

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