Japan : Who Governs?

Chalmers a Johnson
W. W. Norton & Company
9780393314502
0-393-31450-2

Chalmers Johnson long has been America s most penetrating, provocative analyst of Japan s political economy. . . . The scholarship is superb, and the analysis persuasive and enlightening. . . . An accessible,.

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handy compilation of insights that undergird revisionism [the view that Japan s politico-economic system differs far more from the Western model than most Westerners realize]. . . . Juicy insights, such as Johnson s explanation of structural corruption as it s revealed by the career of the late Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, provide more than enough meat to chew on and relish. Robert Neff, Business Week"