The stamp of approval: Decision-making processes and policies in Japan and the UK

East Asia

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 56-76

  Dobson, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; DECISION MAKING; POLICY APPROACH;

ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; JAPAN; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33645312976     PISSN: 10966838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12140-005-0009-3     Document Type: Article

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2. Hugo Dobson and Glenn D. Hook, "Introduction: Japan and Britain - similarities, differences, and the future," in Hugo Dobson and Glenn D. Hook, eds., Japan and Britain in the Contemporary World: Responses to Common Issues (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), 1-17.
3. This section is an abbreviated and slightly adapted version of Hugo Dobson, "Japanese Postage Stamps: Propaganda and Decision-making," Japan Forum 14:1 (2002), 21-39. The journal's website can be found at http://www.tandf.co.uk. The author is grateful to both the British Association of Japanese Studies and Taylor and Francis for permission to reproduce parts of this article. The author would also like to thank Sanno Natsumi of the Japan Philatelic Society Foundation and Andrew McIntosh of Transaction Publishers for all their efforts.
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34. Ibid., 9.
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39. Hansard, 6 December 1965 and 29 November 1968.
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48. Ibid., 11.
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51. Ibid.
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56. Ibid., 430.
57. Ibid., 165-166.
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