Higher civil servants in postwar Japan : their social origins, educational backgrounds, and career patterns / Akira Kubota.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kubota, Sakayu, 1931- author.

Contributor:

University of Michigan. Center for Japanese Studies.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton Legacy Library ; 2030

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government executives--Japan.

Government executives.

World War, 1939-1945--Influence.

World War, 1939-1945.

Bureaucracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1969.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 backgrounds of higher civil servants through their educational training and career patterns to their retirement and post-retirement activities. Throughout, the emphasis is on assembling and analyzing the kind of systematic data that provide a solid basis for understanding how the Japanese bureaucracy actually works. Originally published in 1969.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Front matter

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Contents

Tables

1. Introduction

2. Scope and Method of Study

3. Social Origins

4. Educational Backgrounds

5. Career Patterns

6. Retirement

7. The Postwar Japanese Bureaucracy

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

[A study based on] a sample of 1,353 individuals who have held the post of section chief or above in the central bureaucracy during the years from 1949 to 1959.

Second of a series of books growing out of the Political modernization of Japan project of the University of Michigan's center for Japanese Studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691648965

0691648964

9781400875788

1400875781

OCLC:

927444208