Explorations: Heavenly Machine: Japanese Culture: The nature of fires in Japan

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Description: Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films

Until recently Japanese cities were constantly afflicted with fires. Alan Macfarlane explains some of the causes and consequences of these fires against the background of an old preserved building in Osaka.
 
Created: 2018-03-10 16:29
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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