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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This means that at high schools considered better than average – and the
evaluation of schools in such terms is almost a national pastime – pupils spend
most of their time training to pass exams . The name schools have the best idea
of what ...
This means that at high schools considered better than average – and the
evaluation of schools in such terms is almost a national pastime – pupils spend
most of their time training to pass exams . The name schools have the best idea
of what ...
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monitor their chances of achieving the levels allowing them to sit for the exams of
choice schools . Nearly all pupils will pass to higher grades and graduate , as this
is normally automatic in Japan . But most of the large body of pupils who lack ...
monitor their chances of achieving the levels allowing them to sit for the exams of
choice schools . Nearly all pupils will pass to higher grades and graduate , as this
is normally automatic in Japan . But most of the large body of pupils who lack ...
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The increasing unruliness at public middle schools and high schools , which
Nikkyoso attributes to the inability of pupils to maintain the pace and to the
recently introduced ranking system , has caused many schools to react by
tightening the ...
The increasing unruliness at public middle schools and high schools , which
Nikkyoso attributes to the inability of pupils to maintain the pace and to the
recently introduced ranking system , has caused many schools to react by
tightening the ...
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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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