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As in any other society, power and social influence are distributed unequally in contemporary Japan. As Japanese society appears more rigidly stratified than other comparable Western societies,1 the observation of inequitable access to and exercise of social, political and economic power should come as no surprise.
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Chi Nakane, Japanese Society (Harmondsworth, Middx: Penguin Books, 1973) p. 24.
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© 1993 Albrecht Rothacher
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Rothacher, A. (1993). Society and Power in Japan. In: The Japanese Power Elite. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22993-2_1
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