Japan industrialized within a surviving feudal-bureaucratic shell unlike Western patterns

Evidence

In Japan we have a formation of the English and German type, that is an industrial civilisation that develops within a feudal-bureaucratic integument with unmistakable features of its own. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 319

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing how Gramsci would classify Japanese intellectuals given this hybrid formation, and whether the feudal-bureaucratic integument shaped their role differently.
• XREF: connects to: Industrial mass society preserved feudal affiliation patterns while substituting bureaucratic anchors — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 106