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 , as one anthropologist has put it , is that truth is socially constituted .
Here we arrive at the first conceptual problem Japan has in store for the outside
observer . In the West ' reality ' is not often thought of as something that can be ...
The result , as one anthropologist has put it , is that truth is socially constituted .
Here we arrive at the first conceptual problem Japan has in store for the outside
observer . In the West ' reality ' is not often thought of as something that can be ...
Page 281
As a result of the perceived threat to the established political order , the country
was cut off from contact with Westerners except for a handful of Dutch traders ,
who had managed to convince the shogunate officials that they did not worship
the ...
As a result of the perceived threat to the established political order , the country
was cut off from contact with Westerners except for a handful of Dutch traders ,
who had managed to convince the shogunate officials that they did not worship
the ...
Page 406
The result has been misguided stopgap policies . Increased congressional
pressure on the Reagan administration to cope with the Japan Problem
produced a double formula to help straighten the trade imbalance : a more
expensive yen ...
The result has been misguided stopgap policies . Increased congressional
pressure on the Reagan administration to cope with the Japan Problem
produced a double formula to help straighten the trade imbalance : a more
expensive yen ...
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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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