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- ↑ WorldCat Identities Archived December 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine : Nakamura, Karen, 1970-
- ↑ John Whitney Hall Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, list
- ↑ Abe Fellow, Karen Nakamura Archived September 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine , "The Reformulation and Expansion of Disability Politics in Japan and the United States," 2003
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