I skipped the thirty-one years between 1938 and 1965 and jumped to the section entitled Junitaki Today. Of course, the books today being 1970, it was hardly todays today. Still, writing the history of one town obviously imposed the necessity of bringing it up to a today. And even if such a today soon ceases to be today, no one can deny that it is in fact a today. For if a today ceased to be today, history could not exist as history.

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  • History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation

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