Origins of the Modern Japanese Bureaucracy

Yuichiro Shimizu is Professor in the Faculty of Policy Management at Keio University, Japan. He is the author of Birth of the Bureaucrats (2013) and 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

A pioneering work on a topic of great importance both historically and at present. Japan’s bureaucracy is notable not only for its significant power and (usually) great legitimacy, but also for the passionate commitment of its officials. This lively translation offers Anglophone readers access to the interpretation of a leading historian of Japanese modern politics.