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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 / Public policy
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