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The enigma of Japanese power:

people and politics in a stateless nation
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Vintage Books, 1990 - Business & Economics - 504 pages
A full-scale examination of the inner workings of Japan's political and industrial system.

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This is a very intriguing survey of Japanese culture written by a Westerner who has spent much of his life in Japan. It focuses on the different means by which social order is maintained in Japanese ...

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Finished the Enigma of Japanese Power in 2006- it's a book that came out in 1989 + 'the bubble that does not burst'. It's a very scholarly book by Karel van Wolferen. I must have tried reading it over ...

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The Enigma of Japanese Power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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JSTOR: The Enigma of Japanese Power.
The Enigma of Japanese Power. Paul Blamire. International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 66, No. 3, 636-638. Jul., 1990. ...
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The Enigma of Japanese Power
The Enigma of Japanese Power. Karel van Wolferen. Knopf, $24.95. One reason Westerners know so little about the way Japan works is that few of them
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Japanese history
The Columbia Guide to Modern to Japanese History; Karel van Wolferen: The Enigma of Japanese Power
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IS JAPAN'S DEMOCRACY A SHAM? - New York Times
LEAD: THE ENIGMA OF JAPANESE POWER People and Politics in a Stateless Nation. By Karel van Wolferen. 496 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $24.95. ...
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The text is backed up by a very solid array of statistical data, Japanese and English bibli-. ographies, and a glossary of yoseba terms. ...
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Variants of Corporatist Governance: Different Paths of Korea and ...
... and Performance (Berkeley: University of California Press 2002). Wolferen Karel van The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless ...
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Japan Explained
Wolferen enunciated his central theme in 1989 with the publication of The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation by Alfred A. ...
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