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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27 Perhaps the biggest present bestowed on the post - war MITI bureaucrats by
SCAP was the power to form cartels , an ... These associations , created in 1941
after much friction among the various bureaucratic cliques involved and much ...
27 Perhaps the biggest present bestowed on the post - war MITI bureaucrats by
SCAP was the power to form cartels , an ... These associations , created in 1941
after much friction among the various bureaucratic cliques involved and much ...
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Inherited social - control supports Besides the laws and institutions of the
economic bureaucrats , the postwar legacy of ... Post - war control has in most
areas become very much more sophisticated ; not only have its wartime origins
been ...
Inherited social - control supports Besides the laws and institutions of the
economic bureaucrats , the postwar legacy of ... Post - war control has in most
areas become very much more sophisticated ; not only have its wartime origins
been ...
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For a history of early post - war organisation of small and medium - sized industry
, see Higuchi Kenji , ' Sengo chusho kigyo undo no tenkai ' [ Post - war
development of small and medium - sized industry movement ] , Gendai Chusho
kigyo ...
For a history of early post - war organisation of small and medium - sized industry
, see Higuchi Kenji , ' Sengo chusho kigyo undo no tenkai ' [ Post - war
development of small and medium - sized industry movement ] , Gendai Chusho
kigyo ...
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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 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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