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 75
... the public eye mainly through terrorist activities abroad and the revenge
killings of each other ' s leaders . New radical groups that appeared in the mid -
1980s caused great concern among the authorities ( and a considerable
strengthening ...
... the public eye mainly through terrorist activities abroad and the revenge
killings of each other ' s leaders . New radical groups that appeared in the mid -
1980s caused great concern among the authorities ( and a considerable
strengthening ...
Page 198
The System ' s strongest component To avoid the kind of abuses of which tenko
was a major feature , the United States occupation authorities disbanded the
Naimusho and decentralised the police , making them answerable to prefectural
...
The System ' s strongest component To avoid the kind of abuses of which tenko
was a major feature , the United States occupation authorities disbanded the
Naimusho and decentralised the police , making them answerable to prefectural
...
Page 216
The judges themselves seem almost equally malleable , and have allowed their
authority to slip from their grasp . ... But the dividing line between judiciary and
administration , so carefully drawn by the occupation authorities , was carefully ...
The judges themselves seem almost equally malleable , and have allowed their
authority to slip from their grasp . ... But the dividing line between judiciary and
administration , so carefully drawn by the occupation authorities , was carefully ...
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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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