Definition
The administrative organizations that constitute the Japanese central government and the institutions that define the conditions for recruitment and promotion of its employees.
Introduction
There was a time when the Japanese bureaucracy attracted considerable interest, especially among Western scholars. At the height of Japan’s economic prosperity in the 1980s, numerous books and articles praised the civil service for engineering a “Japanese Miracle” after World War II. A consensus formed around the view that the institutional autonomy of the Japanese bureaucracy allowed it to formulate coherent economic policies, which in turn led to rapid industrial development (Johnson 1982; Pempel and Muramatsu 1995).
For two reasons, this literature has now become largely obsolete. First, Japan’s civil servants no longer enjoy the prestige that they have once been known for. After the...
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Maeda, K. (2018). The Japanese Civil Service. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3268-1
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