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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Japan is also less obviously ruled by an authoritarian hand than most of its
neighbours . Its government does not lock up people in order to stay in power .
For such reasons it has long been assumed that constitutionalism flourishes
there .
Japan is also less obviously ruled by an authoritarian hand than most of its
neighbours . Its government does not lock up people in order to stay in power .
For such reasons it has long been assumed that constitutionalism flourishes
there .
Page 315
A less than perfect harmony A value system governed , ultimately , by social
exigencies means the absence of an urge to fight over ideas . This means in turn
that revolutions in the accepted meaning of the term are ruled out . In Japanese ...
A less than perfect harmony A value system governed , ultimately , by social
exigencies means the absence of an urge to fight over ideas . This means in turn
that revolutions in the accepted meaning of the term are ruled out . In Japanese ...
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But in the ' harder ' , less friendly mode , the tendency is to place things in ready -
made , rigid , immutable categories . In the workaday world , Japanese judge
each other by the schools and universities they attended and the companies or ...
But in the ' harder ' , less friendly mode , the tendency is to place things in ready -
made , rigid , immutable categories . In the workaday world , Japanese judge
each other by the schools and universities they attended and the companies or ...
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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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