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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People and Politics in a Stateless Nation Karel Van Wolferen. 5 The Administrators - Japan has a clearly discernible ruling class . Its members mainly bureaucrats , top businessmen and one section of the LDP - are all basically ...
People and Politics in a Stateless Nation Karel Van Wolferen. 5 The Administrators - Japan has a clearly discernible ruling class . Its members mainly bureaucrats , top businessmen and one section of the LDP - are all basically ...
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... administrators are better protected than others . The bureaucrats are without doubt the most shielded category of all . Article 15 of the constitution , which gives the people the right to choose and dismiss civil servants , could not ...
... administrators are better protected than others . The bureaucrats are without doubt the most shielded category of all . Article 15 of the constitution , which gives the people the right to choose and dismiss civil servants , could not ...
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... administrators have worked out a grand master - plan for industrial domination of the world , what they are doing has the same effect as if there were such a plan . It is not difficult to see why this should be so . The administrators ...
... administrators have worked out a grand master - plan for industrial domination of the world , what they are doing has the same effect as if there were such a plan . It is not difficult to see why this should be so . The administrators ...
Contents
The Elusive State | 25 |
An Inescapable Embrace | 50 |
Servants of the System | 82 |
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