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 8
... Western ally and has been treated as a full member of the club of capitalist free - market nations - this despite recent doubts raised by trade conflicts . Clarifications from the Japanese side do not help settle the controversy . Very ...
... Western ally and has been treated as a full member of the club of capitalist free - market nations - this despite recent doubts raised by trade conflicts . Clarifications from the Japanese side do not help settle the controversy . Very ...
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... Western preconceptions about the possible forms that institutions and the organisation of affairs in non - Western nations can take . The march in the direction that many Western observers thought inevitable is just not going to take ...
... Western preconceptions about the possible forms that institutions and the organisation of affairs in non - Western nations can take . The march in the direction that many Western observers thought inevitable is just not going to take ...
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... Western concepts of individual worth , against the Western example of political self - assertion and against the threat that Western logical consistency poses for Japan's political culture . As such , nihonjinron is comparable to the ...
... Western concepts of individual worth , against the Western example of political self - assertion and against the threat that Western logical consistency poses for Japan's political culture . As such , nihonjinron is comparable to the ...
Contents
The Elusive State | 25 |
An Inescapable Embrace | 50 |
Servants of the System | 82 |
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