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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The result of this political insight was a policy of almost hermetic seclusion, kept
in force until the middle of the nineteenth century. The new set of rulers that came
in with the Meiji Restoration of 1868 promoted the import of practically anything ...
The result of this political insight was a policy of almost hermetic seclusion, kept
in force until the middle of the nineteenth century. The new set of rulers that came
in with the Meiji Restoration of 1868 promoted the import of practically anything ...
Page 183
Nannies, monitors and missionaries From the time of its formation in the 1870s it
was understood that Japan's police force, unlike its sword-wielding samurai
predecessors, could not merely scare the populace into submission. Kawaji ...
Nannies, monitors and missionaries From the time of its formation in the 1870s it
was understood that Japan's police force, unlike its sword-wielding samurai
predecessors, could not merely scare the populace into submission. Kawaji ...
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The only problem with this is that when one speaks of authoritarianism one
expects to be able to point to a source from which the forces controlling society
emanate. In the Japanese case these forces appear to be coming from
everywhere, ...
The only problem with this is that when one speaks of authoritarianism one
expects to be able to point to a source from which the forces controlling society
emanate. In the Japanese case these forces appear to be coming from
everywhere, ...
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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 |
| Author | Karel Van Wolferen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | A.A. Knopf, 1989 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2010 |
| Length | 496 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / International / General History / Asia / Japan Japan Japan - Economic policy - 1945-1989 Japan - Politics and government - 1945 Political Science / International Relations / General Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy Political culture Political culture - Japan Political culture/ Japan Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural |
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