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Kawabata used "beauty" as a metaphor for Japan's?

  • Economic growth

  • Cuisine

  • Loss and devastation

  • Technological advancement

Answer

Beauty was used as a metaphor for Japan's loss and devastation after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.
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