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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 77
Page 8
... things are portrayed the way they are supposed to be . How things are supposed to be tends to coincide , of course , with the immediate interests of one's group . For the past four centuries the Japanese people have been told to ...
... things are portrayed the way they are supposed to be . How things are supposed to be tends to coincide , of course , with the immediate interests of one's group . For the past four centuries the Japanese people have been told to ...
Page 235
... things even easier , the Japanese have a relevant terminology : tatemae , or the way things are presented , ostensible motives , formal truth , the façade , pretence , the way things are supposed to be ( often wrongly translated by ...
... things even easier , the Japanese have a relevant terminology : tatemae , or the way things are presented , ostensible motives , formal truth , the façade , pretence , the way things are supposed to be ( often wrongly translated by ...
Page 328
... things ought to be and how people ought to behave . There are both ' soft ' and ' hard ' aspects to their human environment . These complement each other , but are not made to fit into a continuous logical scheme . On the softer side ...
... things ought to be and how people ought to behave . There are both ' soft ' and ' hard ' aspects to their human environment . These complement each other , but are not made to fit into a continuous logical scheme . On the softer side ...
Contents
The Elusive State | 25 |
An Inescapable Embrace | 50 |
Servants of the System | 82 |
Copyright | |
14 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
administrators Agency amakudari Asahi Asahi Shimbun associations banks become behaviour believe Buddhism burakumin cabinet cent century Chapter Chinese Chuo Koron companies conflict corporations court culture Dentsu Diet members economic élite emperor established federations firms force foreign formal groups habatsu hierarchy Ibid ideas ideology imperial important individual industrial institutions intellectual Japan Japanese Japanese political Japanese society jinmyaku kanryo Keidanren keiretsu Keizai Kishi labour LDP politicians major Meiji oligarchy Meiji period military Ministry of Finance MITI moral Naimusho Nakasone Nakasone Yasuhiro newspapers Nihon nihonjinron Nikkyoso nokyo officials organisation parties police post-war power-holders pre-war prime minister problem prosecutors reality relations relationship religion role rules salaryman schools Shimbun Shinto shogunate social socio-political Sohyo sokaiya Tanaka Tanaka Kakuei theory thought tion Tokugawa Tokyo trade tradition unions University Press wartime Western yakuza Yamaguchi-gumi zoku