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The Success of Competitive-Communism in Japan

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  • © 1988

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Authors:
  1. Douglas Moore Kenrick

    1. Asiatic Society of Japan, Japan

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Competitive-Communism

      • Douglas Moore Kenrick
      Pages 3-13

    3. Beneath the Western Veneer

      • Douglas Moore Kenrick
      Pages 14-23

  3. Communistic Behaviour and Social Structure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Cliques

      • Douglas Moore Kenrick
      Pages 27-34

    3. Outsiders

      • Douglas Moore Kenrick
      Pages 35-44

    4. Dependence

      • Douglas Moore Kenrick
      Pages 45-54

    5. Rationality

      • Douglas Moore Kenrick
      Pages 55-62

  4. Continuity and Transmission of an Ancient Social Structure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Tradition

      • Douglas Moore Kenrick
      Pages 65-74

    3. Hierarchy

      • Douglas Moore Kenrick
      Pages 75-81

    4. Obligations and the Law

      • Douglas Moore Kenrick
      Pages 82-91

    5. Religions, Mythology and Morality

      • Douglas Moore Kenrick
      Pages 92-103

    6. Communication

      • Douglas Moore Kenrick
      Pages 104-111

    7. Women

      • Douglas Moore Kenrick
      Pages 112-120

    8. Labour

      • Douglas Moore Kenrick
      Pages 121-138

  5. Japan in Recent Years

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Japan’s ‘Economic Miracle’

      • Douglas Moore Kenrick
      Pages 141-148

    3. Stone, Paper and Scissors

      • Douglas Moore Kenrick
      Pages 149-161
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For centuries Japan, although a totalitarian dictatorship, was ruled by figureheads who signed laws formulated 'behind the screen'. Hierarchy still defines everyone's status. The man at the top has power but jeopardizes his position if he ignores consensus opinions. Nowadays fashionable twentieth-century clothing cloaks a contradictory blend of intense competition with a tradition of harmony dependent on close human-relations and complex communal restraint. The Japanese organise themselves in cliques (not groups) which raise barriers against outsiders. Companies are controlled from within; shareholders are outsiders. Women are more than equal in their homes; less than equal at work. After living and managing his own business in Japan for forty years, the author explored widely before coining the term 'competitive communism' to describe Japan's economic and social system.

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  • Asiatic Society of Japan, Japan

    Douglas Moore Kenrick

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