ABSTRACT
The concept of "dependency" as a factor in human behavior with important political impact is not unique to Doi's analysis of the Japanese psychology. Dependency in one sense is enjoying renewed attention among political developmentalists studying "corporative" governments. 1 The centralized state which embraces all areas of social endeavor, however, is nourishing itself on "dependency needs" of a totally different sort from the expressive needs of the Japanese to amaeru.
