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Title: The Nature of the Japanese State: Rationality and Rituality (NISSAN INSTITUTE ROUTLEDGE JAPANESE STUDIES SERIES) by Brian J. McVeigh ISBN: 0-415-17106-7 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $114.95

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Summary: An authoritative study of an important subject
Comment: Japanology is viewed with suspicion by scholars in less politically charged disciplines - and rightly so. For one thing, many of Americafs most visible and widely quoted Japanologists spend little time in Japan and thus are largely dependent on secondary or tertiary sources in trying to understand this most opaque of nations. As most of the secondary and tertiary sources are in one way or another mouthpieces of the Japanese systemfs extensive international public relations program (the gmutual understandingh industry), there are clear grounds for concern about their reliability and trustworthiness. Enter Brian McVeigh. A resident of Tokyo since the early 1990s, McVeigh is one of the few American Japanologists who can claim a truly authoritative first-hand knowledge of his subject. Moreover he brings to this ultra-political field, a mind that is unrivalled in its commitment to the most rigorous standards of intellectual honesty and impartiality. McVeigh views Japan through the lens of anthropology - and the picture he presents is a disturbing one. While less informed observers maintain that nationalism is dead in modern Japan, McVeigh expertly debunks this myth. Stating his case in the precise language of anthropology, McVeigh presents an electrifying picture of a nation driven from the top by authoritarian bureaucrats who pursue an uncompromisingly nationalistic - some would say profoundly xenophobic - agenda. As McVeigh shows again and again, the bureaucrats have left almost nothing to chance in building what will in the fullness of time come to be recognized as one of the strongest nation states in world history.

Eamonn Fingleton, Mita 2-chome, Tokyo