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Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire

9.520042h 45mNRMovieDocumentaryHistory

Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it flourished not through conquest and exploration, but by fierce and defiant isolation. And the man at the heart of this empire was Tokugawa…

DirectorsDeborah Ann DeSnoo·Lyn Goldfarb

WritersDeborah Ann DeSnoo·Lyn Goldfarb

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Cast · Directed by Deborah Ann DeSnoo

Michael Auslin

Himself - Nikko Toshogu Shrine

Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey

Herself - Otsuma Women's University

Richard Chamberlain

Narrator

Michael Cooper

Himself - Former Editor, 'Monumenta Nipponica'

Luke S. Roberts

Himself - UC Santa Barbera

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