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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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 ...
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 ...
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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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