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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... Japanese do . The Japan Problem for the Japanese As a nation , Japan is a problem for itself because the way Japanese power is exercised results in conflicts with , and isolation from , other countries . But Japan is also a problem for ...
... Japanese do . The Japan Problem for the Japanese As a nation , Japan is a problem for itself because the way Japanese power is exercised results in conflicts with , and isolation from , other countries . But Japan is also a problem for ...
Page 265
... Japanese . 52 Ordinary Japanese people have never been encouraged to take this kind of writing with a grain of salt . Very little serious writing by Japanese on anything relating to their society is entirely free of nihonjinron ...
... Japanese . 52 Ordinary Japanese people have never been encouraged to take this kind of writing with a grain of salt . Very little serious writing by Japanese on anything relating to their society is entirely free of nihonjinron ...
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... Japanese to question it . As the eminent connoisseur of Japanese life and literature , Edward Seidensticker , puts it : ' The key to understanding Japanese society is to understand that Japanese have not been taught to say No ! '70 Most ...
... Japanese to question it . As the eminent connoisseur of Japanese life and literature , Edward Seidensticker , puts it : ' The key to understanding Japanese society is to understand that Japanese have not been taught to say No ! '70 Most ...
Contents
The Elusive State | 25 |
An Inescapable Embrace | 50 |
Servants of the System | 82 |
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