The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation
The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation
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日本权力之谜：无国籍国家的人民与政治
DOI：
10.5860/choice.27-1745
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发表时间：
1990
影响因子：
13.3
通讯作者：
Karel van Wolferen
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作者：
Karel van Wolferen
这本书调查了日本人生活的方方面面，政治和经济，社会和心理，揭开了日本在现代世界的谜团，揭示了日本积累的财富几乎没有给普通日本人带来什么好处。作者展示了日本社会和文化的特征——温顺的顺从、几乎没有诉讼和缺乏个人主义——是如何起源于政治目的的。日本有议会民主制度，但实际上是一个一党制国家，日本首相的权力比亚洲或西方任何其他政府首脑都要小。从表面上看，日本没有一个负责任的权力中心。卡尔·范·沃尔夫伦作为一名驻外记者在日本生活和工作了大约25年。去年，他获得了荷兰版的普利策奖。
This is a survey of every aspect of Japanese life, political and economic, social and psychological, unravelling the enigma of Japan in the modern world revealing that Japan's amassed wealth has brought little benefit to the ordinary Japanese. The author shows how the docile conformity , near absence of litigation and lack of individualism - characterising Japanese society and culture - originates in political purpose. Japan has the institutions of a parliamentary democracy, yet is effectively a one-party state and the power of the Japanese prime minister is less than that of any other head of government in Asia or the West. Japan is governed to all appearances with no centre of accountable power. Karl van Wolferen has lived and worked as a foreign correspondent in Japan for some quarter of a century. Last year he won the Dutch equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.