The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation

Karel Van Wolferen, Karel Van Wolferen. Vintage Books USA, $24 (524pp) ISBN 978-0-679-72802-3

``Here at last is a first-rate book by a Westerner on the obfuscations and realities of Japanese politics,'' praised PW , complimenting van Wolferen's ``almost stupefying thoroughness.'' (May)

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