The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless NationA full-scale examination of the inner workings of Japan's political and industrial system. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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One landing spot for Dentsu personnel is Video Research Company , the rating
agency that assesses the popularity of TV programmes . Set up by Dentsu in
1962 , two years after the US firm Nielsen introduced the TV programme rating ...
One landing spot for Dentsu personnel is Video Research Company , the rating
agency that assesses the popularity of TV programmes . Set up by Dentsu in
1962 , two years after the US firm Nielsen introduced the TV programme rating ...
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37 But the most interesting of the smaller outfits making propaganda for the
administrators is the very active Tokyu Agency . Whereas Dentsu normally
receives orders through the bureaucrats , when Nakasone Yasuhiro was prime
minister he ...
37 But the most interesting of the smaller outfits making propaganda for the
administrators is the very active Tokyu Agency . Whereas Dentsu normally
receives orders through the bureaucrats , when Nakasone Yasuhiro was prime
minister he ...
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In Japanese government agencies they are strong , vivid and sharply etched into
the minds of the officials . ... turned into the Ministry of Construction and the
National Land Agency ; its police bureau , which became the National Police
Agency ...
In Japanese government agencies they are strong , vivid and sharply etched into
the minds of the officials . ... turned into the Ministry of Construction and the
National Land Agency ; its police bureau , which became the National Police
Agency ...
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Contents
The Elusive State | 25 |
An Inescapable Embrace | 50 |
Servants of the System | 82 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation A Borzoi book |
| Author | Karel Van Wolferen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | A.A. Knopf, 1989 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2010 |
| ISBN | 0394577965, 9780394577968 |
| Length | 496 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / International / General Political Science / International Relations / General |
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