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 intellectual pursuits . 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 ...
... Japanese intellectual pursuits . 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 ...
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... Japanese syllabary on the grounds that such names ' do not match the single - race Japanese society ' . 61 Another manifestation of the homogeneity myth is the image of Japan as a classless society , with only slight differences between ...
... Japanese syllabary on the grounds that such names ' do not match the single - race Japanese society ' . 61 Another manifestation of the homogeneity myth is the image of Japan as a classless society , with only slight differences between ...
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... Japanese values ' increases along with a sense of being victimised by an anti - Japanese world . The danger of ... society of its rigid codes of individual submission , and there would be little left to hold it together . Many of ...
... Japanese values ' increases along with a sense of being victimised by an anti - Japanese world . The danger of ... society of its rigid codes of individual submission , and there would be little left to hold it together . Many of ...
Contents
The Elusive State | 25 |
An Inescapable Embrace | 50 |
Servants of the System | 82 |
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