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 intellectual pursuits . Japanese ideas of justice and the place of law in society have been fashioned by rulers in terms of expediency , and have not influenced the attitudes and methods of those rulers in any critical way ...
... Japanese intellectual pursuits . Japanese ideas of justice and the place of law in society have been fashioned by rulers in terms of expediency , and have not influenced the attitudes and methods of those rulers in any critical way ...
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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 ...
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... Japanese society helps explain the poverty of Japanese intellectual probing of society . Where social concerns are forever paramount , and have religious significance , analysis of society is akin to analysis of the divinity , and such ...
... Japanese society helps explain the poverty of Japanese intellectual probing of society . Where social concerns are forever paramount , and have religious significance , analysis of society is akin to analysis of the divinity , and such ...
Contents
The Elusive State | 25 |
An Inescapable Embrace | 50 |
Servants of the System | 82 |
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