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Maruyama Masao has observed that Japanese intellectuals adopt new domestic
or foreign ideas in rapid succession: 'New ideas of whatever origin win extremely
quick victory over the intellectuals'; they make no conscious effort to test the ...
Maruyama Masao has observed that Japanese intellectuals adopt new domestic
or foreign ideas in rapid succession: 'New ideas of whatever origin win extremely
quick victory over the intellectuals'; they make no conscious effort to test the ...
Page 238
Although an unambiguous order rules social relationships, individual things and
ideas coexist in a feast of incongruity that both baffles and amuses the outsider.
Visitors to Japan realise almost immediately that they are among inveterate ...
Although an unambiguous order rules social relationships, individual things and
ideas coexist in a feast of incongruity that both baffles and amuses the outsider.
Visitors to Japan realise almost immediately that they are among inveterate ...
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often fail to convey the spirit and purpose of the originals, though something of
their new ideas undoubtedly seeps through. No other people in history, perhaps,
has been required to absorb such a plethora of new ideas as the Japanese were
...
often fail to convey the spirit and purpose of the originals, though something of
their new ideas undoubtedly seeps through. No other people in history, perhaps,
has been required to absorb such a plethora of new ideas as the Japanese were
...
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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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