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Shadow Shoguns: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Postwar Political Machine (1st Edition) by Jacob M. Schlesinger Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-8047-3457-7 / 0804734577 ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-3457-8 / 9780804734578 This is a vivid account of the corrupt and improbable political machine that ran Japanese politics for twenty years, from the early 1970s to the early 1990s, the period during which Japan became the world's second-largest economy. Reviews "Washington lobbyists, Moscow mafiosi, and Beijing party bos |