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Imperial Japan's Higher Civil Service Examinations
By (Author) Robert M. Spaulding
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
351.076
Hardback
444
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
794g
From 1868 to 1945 imperial Japan was governed by shifting coalitions of several dissimilar elite groups. In this historical analysis of the examination system that regulated access to the inner civil bureaucracy and shaped its political outlook, Professor Spaulding describes the steps by which Japan came to accept examinations as the key to office.