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The "Iron Triangle": The Nature and Impact of Japanese Elites; Japan:Some Key Aspects of Social Structure and Culture; From Bakufu to Keiretsu:The Making of the Japanese Upper Class; The Corporate Elite: A New UpperClass of "Japan, Inc."; The Bureaucratic Elite: The Guiding Hand and TrainingGround for a New Upper Class; The Political Elite: Junior Partner andProtectorate; Uniting for Power: Intermarriage, Keibatsu, Business Groups,and Social Clubs; The Todai Connection: Elite Recruitment and Reproduction;Japan's Mass Society: People Control for Elite Power; Elites and the Futureof Japan: Some Final Thoughts.