ABSTRACT
There are at least two dangers in the attempt made in this book to contribute to our knowledge in the field of foreign governments. If political science (or if you prefer, study of the art of politics) must approach all governments as institutions sprung from the roots of cultures, then the author must write for an average American still largely uninformed about non-Western cultures and institutions. That is to say, both author and reader run the risk that Japanese government will be judged only in light of familiar Western cultures.
