The Japanese Power Elite

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This book attempts a coherent portrait of the heart of Japan's economic and political decision making. It presents the men occupying the core positions in Japan's ruling party, the central ministries, and in big business and its organizations. Elite career patterns, social origins, upbringing, university education, cognitive orientations and ways of life are reviewed, as are the interactions in the exclusive world of Japan's increasingly hereditary and bureaucratic class of power holders in conservative politics and big business. Front Matter....Pages i-xix Society and Power in Japan....Pages 1-6 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 The Liberal Democratic Party: Structure and Factions....Pages 9-47 Political Careers....Pages 48-101 Legitimacy Crises....Pages 102-122 Front Matter....Pages 123-123 The Civil Service System....Pages 125-148 Government Operations....Pages 149-167 Elite Civil Servants....Pages 168-179 Front Matter....Pages 181-181 The Keiretsu Business Conglomerates....Pages 183-218 Zaikai — the Organisation of Big Business Interests....Pages 219-230 Executive Careers....Pages 231-260 Front Matter....Pages 261-261 Elite Mobility and Elite Rule....Pages 263-281 Back Matter....Pages 282-311