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...Lee W. Farnsworth Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 Japan's Political System . By Robert E. Ward . Englewood Cliffs, N. J. : Prentice-Hall, Inc. , 1967 . Pp. ix , 126 pp. $4.95 cloth, $1.95 paper. BOOK REVIEWS 403 movement concerned with unenfranchised...

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