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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Page 101
... samurai films romanticise the traditional manliness of an imagined warrior past . In fact , ' the samurai heroes are in some ways less traditional , less essentially Japanese than the yakuza'.29 Outside the cinema , real - life yakuza ...
... samurai films romanticise the traditional manliness of an imagined warrior past . In fact , ' the samurai heroes are in some ways less traditional , less essentially Japanese than the yakuza'.29 Outside the cinema , real - life yakuza ...
Page 251
... samurai , an etiquette summed up in the famous Hagakure , written in 1716 , which says in its first paragraphs that ' the Way of the samurai is found in death'.11 The work is both humdrum and extremist . Various stories and aphorisms in ...
... samurai , an etiquette summed up in the famous Hagakure , written in 1716 , which says in its first paragraphs that ' the Way of the samurai is found in death'.11 The work is both humdrum and extremist . Various stories and aphorisms in ...
Page 301
... samurai with inherited privileges guaranteed political continuity . Beneath it , a layer of educated and disciplined lower samurai existed ; these were early ' technocrats ' entrusted with the daily manage- ment of a fairly rapidly ...
... samurai with inherited privileges guaranteed political continuity . Beneath it , a layer of educated and disciplined lower samurai existed ; these were early ' technocrats ' entrusted with the daily manage- ment of a fairly rapidly ...
Contents
The Elusive State | 25 |
An Inescapable Embrace | 50 |
Servants of the System | 82 |
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