Japan's quartet of important advisors.

Contemporary Review | April 1, 1995| | Copyright

Chukoku - the Japanese way of advice - is very much alive in the country. Not for nothing do the Japanese prize the counsel of those who have been the nation's leaders. In a land where the led are reluctant to be leaders, the high-fliers who have achieved prominence in the civil service and private commerce, are, on retirement invited to become advisors on all matters; the Japanese call the process amakudari ('descending from heaven').

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