Stone, Paper and Scissors

Douglas Moore Kenrick
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Douglas Moore Kenrick: Asiatic Society of Japan

Chapter 15 in The Success of Competitive-Communism in Japan, 1988, pp 149-161 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract ‘Japan Incorporated’ as a label conveys correctly the united front the Japanese clan achieves in dealing with foreigners, but gives a facile impression of a binding organisation with absolute control centralised in the hands of a single chairman and board of directors, each with his responsibilities clearly defined. There is no such rigid, formalised ‘Japan Incorporated’, with centralised, autocratic authority. In practice there are three competing centres of power: bureaucrats, politicians and businessmen. The absence of unified dictatorship has prompted use of ‘competitive-communism’ as an alternative label while ‘clan’ depicts the binding frame of Japan’s self-centred racial exclusivity more aptly than ‘Japan Incorporated’.

Keywords: Prime Minister; Liberal Democratic Party; Unite Front; Governing Party; Cabinet Minister (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19367-7_15

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