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Higher Civil Servants in Postwar Japan: Their Social Origins, Educational Backgrounds, and Career Patterns
By (Author) Akira Kubota
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Public administration
Political science and theory
Asian history
352.630952
Hardback
214
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
454g
This volume presents an analysis of Japan's powerful upper bureaucracy in the post-war period. The author's aim is to provide an empirical foundation for the many impressionistic accounts of Japanese bureaucracy and a systematic basis for comparative studies of bureaucracies in other countries. The study ranges from the family and geographic backgr