Origins of the Modern Japanese Bureaucracy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvYuichiro Shimizu,Christopher Gerteis

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What is a bureaucracy, from where does it come, and how does it develop? Japanese have long described their nation as a “kingdom of bureaucrats", but until now, no historian has fully explained the historical origins of the mammoth Japanese executive state. In this ground-breaking study, translated into English for the first time, Yuichiro Shimizu traces the rise of the modern Japanese bureaucracy from the Meiji Restoration through the early 20th century. He reveals how the making of the bureaucracy was none other than the making of Japanese modernity itself. Through careful political analysis and vivid human narratives, he tells the dynamic story of how personal ambition, new educational institutions, and state bureaucratic structures interacted to make a modern political system premised on recruiting talent, not status or lineage. Bringing cutting-edge Japanese scholarship to a global audience, The Origins of the Modern Japanese Bureaucracy is not only a reconceptualization of modern Japanese political history but an account of how the ideal of “pursuing one’s own calling” became the foundational principle of the modern nation-state.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-10-31
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt576 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
Antal sidor288
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350079557
ÖversättareGhadimi, Amin

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Yuichiro Shimizu is Professor in the Faculty of Policy Management at Keio University, Japan. He is the author of Birth of the Bureaucrats (2013), Party and the Bureaucracy in Modern Japan: Clash of the Constitutional Government (2007).Amin Ghadimi is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Utsunomiya University, Japan, having received his doctorate from Harvard University, USA. He has published articles in Social Science Japan Journal and Global Intellectual History.

AcknowledgementsTranslator’s PrefaceIntroduction1. The Making of Restoration Bureaucrats2. Developing Human Resources for a New Regime3. Building a Constitutional System: The 1870s and 1880s4. Higher Education and the Constitutional Era5. The Age of Constitutional Government: From Oligarch-Bureaucrats to Scholar-Bureaucrats, 1890s-1910s6. Developing Human Resources under Taisho DemocracyConclusionBibliographyIndex