半个多世纪以来，自民党一直统治着日本，只是在二十世纪初期有过短暂间歇。

FOR more than half a century the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has ruled Japan, with only a brief hiatus in the early 1990s.

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鉴于埃里克·霍布斯鲍姆称二十世纪(1914年至1991年)乃是个“短暂的世纪”，以及战争在本书起到的核心作用，这样的安排比较妥当。

Given the central role of war, a book limited to what Eric Hobsbawm has called the short 20th century-1914 to 1991-might have served better.

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