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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Japanese ideas of justice and the place of law in society have been fashioned by
rulers in terms of expediency , and have not influenced the attitudes and methods
of those rulers in any critical way . Supposedly typical aspects of Japanese ...
Japanese ideas of justice and the place of law in society have been fashioned by
rulers in terms of expediency , and have not influenced the attitudes and methods
of those rulers in any critical way . Supposedly typical aspects of Japanese ...
Page 272
As the eminent connoisseur of Japanese life and literature , Edward
Seidensticker , puts it : ' The key to understanding Japanese society is to
understand that Japanese have not been taught to say No ! ' 70 Most Japanese
middle and high ...
As the eminent connoisseur of Japanese life and literature , Edward
Seidensticker , puts it : ' The key to understanding Japanese society is to
understand that Japanese have not been taught to say No ! ' 70 Most Japanese
middle and high ...
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Dangerous faiths in the twentieth century In the two and a half centuries of the
police state forged by the Tokugawas , no new set of propositions about the
relationship of human beings to society or the universe ever had a chance to
compete ...
Dangerous faiths in the twentieth century In the two and a half centuries of the
police state forged by the Tokugawas , no new set of propositions about the
relationship of human beings to society or the universe ever had a chance to
compete ...
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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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