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Articles by Bertell Ollman

Why Does the Emperor Need the Yakuza?
- Bertell Ollman
in NLR 8, March-April 2001, pp. 73-98
Subjects: Japan , Political Theory and Strategy

Japan’s flashy gangsters look to be the antithesis of its austere emperors. Bertell Ollman contends that there is a structural connexion between them. Rule by an unelected bureaucracy requires an inviolate imperial symbol for compensating legitimacy, which must in turn be shielded from queries or criticisms by criminal thugs. An American Marxist challenges the central taboo of Japanese public life.
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