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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... society . We have no difficulty in accepting that Soviet society , sixty years after the Bolshevik Revolution , has acquired characteristics it would not have had if it had known liberty , if it had been spared oppression by a ruling ...
... society . We have no difficulty in accepting that Soviet society , sixty years after the Bolshevik Revolution , has acquired characteristics it would not have had if it had known liberty , if it had been spared oppression by a ruling ...
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... society ' . 61 Another manifestation of the homogeneity myth is the image of Japan as a classless society , with only slight differences between rich and poor . Every year since 1958 the government has surveyed the Japanese to find out ...
... society ' . 61 Another manifestation of the homogeneity myth is the image of Japan as a classless society , with only slight differences between rich and poor . Every year since 1958 the government has surveyed the Japanese to find out ...
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... society of its rigid codes of individual submission , and there would be little left to hold it together . Many of the administrators are uncomfortably aware of this . The reaction against the fanatical wartime version of Japanism ...
... society of its rigid codes of individual submission , and there would be little left to hold it together . Many of the administrators are uncomfortably aware of this . The reaction against the fanatical wartime version of Japanism ...
Contents
The Elusive State | 25 |
An Inescapable Embrace | 50 |
Servants of the System | 82 |
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