Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Ltd. is a pioneer in Japan modern industry.

日本三菱重工业株式会社是日本近代产业的先驱。

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Japan is often quoted as the prime example of a modern industrial nation.

人们经常举例把日本作为现代工业国家的典范。

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Who cares whether modern Japan should be thought western or something else?

谁还介意现代日本究竟应该被看成是西化的还是其他什么？

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Thanks to the nodal position of the prefectures, sitting as they do between the centre and Japan's 3, 200 municipal governments, these ties have helped to preserve in modern Japan some of the features of pre-war society: uniform, centrally-determined policies and docile obedience in carrying them out.

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Published this week in the U.S. by Harper Collins (no one in Japan has yet agreed to translate and publish the work), Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan relies on diaries, memoirs and war-era documents that have been unearthed in Japan since the Emperor died in 1989.

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Foreigners are tolerated in modern Japan, although they were banished for hundreds of years.

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