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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Page 352
The leader of the Ministry of Finance group in Manchuria was Hoshino Naoki ,
who was president of the wartime CPB . ... The main architects of wartime
financial controls had originally come from the foreign exchange section ,
established in ...
The leader of the Ministry of Finance group in Manchuria was Hoshino Naoki ,
who was president of the wartime CPB . ... The main architects of wartime
financial controls had originally come from the foreign exchange section ,
established in ...
Page 402
A degree of liberalisation of financial and capital markets did indeed take place ,
but it was of a kind that fitted Japanese ... The Ministry of Finance bureaucrats '
apparent concessions were in fact aimed , first , at bringing regulations in line
with ...
A degree of liberalisation of financial and capital markets did indeed take place ,
but it was of a kind that fitted Japanese ... The Ministry of Finance bureaucrats '
apparent concessions were in fact aimed , first , at bringing regulations in line
with ...
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16 See , for instance , the remarks by Kaya Okinori , the most prominent Ministry
of Finance official in the late 1930s . ... 18 Ito Osamu , ' Sengo Nihon kin ' yu
shisutemu no keisei ' [ The formation of post - war Japan ' s financial system ) , in
...
16 See , for instance , the remarks by Kaya Okinori , the most prominent Ministry
of Finance official in the late 1930s . ... 18 Ito Osamu , ' Sengo Nihon kin ' yu
shisutemu no keisei ' [ The formation of post - war Japan ' s financial system ) , in
...
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Contents
The Elusive State | 25 |
An Inescapable Embrace | 50 |
Servants of the System | 82 |
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| 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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