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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... result that the unsuspecting observer is nearly always misled as to how things actually work . It is not at all difficult for Japanese commentators and official spokesmen to maintain such fictions , because it is socially acceptable in ...
... result that the unsuspecting observer is nearly always misled as to how things actually work . It is not at all difficult for Japanese commentators and official spokesmen to maintain such fictions , because it is socially acceptable in ...
Page 66
... result of heightened wartime production pressures . In the 1920s some firms had begun to pretend that they were large substitute families for their workers . Understanding the advantages of this for social control , the Naimusho ...
... result of heightened wartime production pressures . In the 1920s some firms had begun to pretend that they were large substitute families for their workers . Understanding the advantages of this for social control , the Naimusho ...
Page 403
... result , then , of a political master - plan ? Have the economic administrators been consciously working to create the confluence of circumstances that gives them their current international financing power ? Such questions , though ...
... result , then , of a political master - plan ? Have the economic administrators been consciously working to create the confluence of circumstances that gives them their current international financing power ? Such questions , though ...
Contents
The Elusive State | 25 |
An Inescapable Embrace | 50 |
Servants of the System | 82 |
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