The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation"The first full-scale examination of the inner workings of Japan's political/industrial system"--Cover subtitle. |
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Page 116
... officials , like other Japanese bureaucrats , are ambivalent about ' strong ' ministers . On the one hand , they want their department to be nominally headed by an LDP politician powerful enough to help them get a larger share of the ...
... officials , like other Japanese bureaucrats , are ambivalent about ' strong ' ministers . On the one hand , they want their department to be nominally headed by an LDP politician powerful enough to help them get a larger share of the ...
Page 247
... official spokesmen and the press . Blinding the world Japanese officials , commentators and businessmen routinely appeal to ' cultural ' reasons for not doing what foreigners think they ought to be doing . The Japanese ' plead ...
... official spokesmen and the press . Blinding the world Japanese officials , commentators and businessmen routinely appeal to ' cultural ' reasons for not doing what foreigners think they ought to be doing . The Japanese ' plead ...
Page 339
... officials circulate among other officials at ever higher levels , receiving their seals of approval . The appearance of full participation is served , and those who are not in favour of the plan can sabotage it to a certain extent by ...
... officials circulate among other officials at ever higher levels , receiving their seals of approval . The appearance of full participation is served , and those who are not in favour of the plan can sabotage it to a certain extent by ...
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