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Review: The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless NationUser Review - Sean - GoodreadsThis 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 ... Read full review Review: The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless NationUser Review - Keith - GoodreadsFinished 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 ... Read full review Related books
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