By Robert Whiting
"A attention-grabbing examine a few attention-grabbing those that convey how democracy advances hand in hand with crime in Japan."--Mario Puzo
In this unorthodox chronicle of the increase of Japan, Inc., Robert Whiting, writer of You Gotta Have Wa, supplies us a clean viewpoint at the financial miracle and close to catastrophe that's smooth Japan.
Through the eyes of Nick Zappetti, a former GI, former black marketer, failed specialist wrestler, bungling diamond thief who grew to become himself into "the Mafia boss of Tokyo and the king of Rappongi," we meet the gamers and the losers within the high-stakes video game of postwar finance, politics, and legal corruption within which he thrived. Here's the tale of the Imperial inn diamond robbers, who tried (and can have complete) the largest heist in Tokyo's heritage. here's Rikidozan, the pro wrestler who nearly single-handedly revived eastern delight, yet whose personal ethnicity needed to be stored mystery. And here's the tale of the intimate relationships shared via Japan's ruling get together, its monetary combines, its ruthless legal gangs, the CIA, American giant enterprise, and maybe not less than one presidential relative. here's the bottom of postwar Japan, that's simply now coming to mild.
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It is generally accepted that Confucian ideas came to Japan early in the fifth century. It is a philosophy of moral behaviour and social stability, and would have found fertile soil in a society that already had a well-established hierarchical social order (it remained most powerful among the elites, however, until the advent of feudalism). It rarely came into conflict with Japanese Buddhism. Confucianism focuses on the duties of care, obedience and respect in relationships between ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife and so on, where the former must take proper care of the latter in return for obedience.
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One may speculate on the reason for his advocacy; perhaps it was respect for China and a desire to appear ‘civilised’, admiration of the structure of Buddhism (as opposed to the 29 A Shor t His tor y of Japan Image Not Available Cherry blossoms, − en, Shinjuku Gyo Tokyo. − ), or philosophical apprerelatively primitive structure of Shinto ciation. Buddhism was certainly supported by a number of subsequent emperors, underscoring the point that major social changes in Japan usually occurred from the top down rather than as grassroots movements.