Imperial Japan's higher civil service examinations / Robert M. Spaulding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spaulding, Robert M. (Robert Miller), 1923- author.

Contributor:

University of Michigan. Center for Japanese Studies

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil service--Japan--Examinations.

Civil service.

Law examinations--Japan.

Law examinations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (443 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1967.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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. The reasons for this acceptance are discussed by (1) piecing together fragmentary clues from government decrees, official memoirs, and the comparative history of Japanese higher education, political parties, and constitution, and (2) a quantitative analysis of many aspects of the civil service, showing why examinations were instituted, why they were ineffective at first, and how they worked after the system was reformed in 1899.Originally published in 1967.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:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction

Part I. The Decision to Examine

1. Trial of the Chinese System

2. Kanda's "Chinese" Plan, 1869

3. The Search for Judicial Autonomy

4. Itō and Stein, 1882

5. The First "German" Plans, 1884

6. Itō and Kaneko, 1885-86

7. Tani and the 1887 Ordinances

8. A Third Judicial Examination System, 1890

9. Collapse and Revival, 1892-93

10. Hara and the New Examinations, 1893

11. Yamagata and the Capstone, 1899

Part II. Changes in the 20th Century

12. Privilege and Protest

13. A Decade of Indecisive Skirmishes

14. The Myth of Unification

15. The Myth of Diversification

Part III. The Examinations and the Examiners

16. Structure of the Examination System

17. The Preparatory Examinations

18. The Preliminary Examinations

19. The Main Examinations

20. Training and the Post-Training Examinations

21. The Higher Examiners

22. The Mathematics of the Dragon Gate

23. Strategy at the Dragon Gate

24. Fraud and Favoritism

25. The Significance of Examinations

Appendices

A. Glossary

B. Genealogy of the Private Law Schools

C. Internal Evidence for Dating the Rejected Plan of 1884

D. Identification and Dating of the "Lost" Plans of 1886

E. Questions in the Main Written Examinations

F. An Example of the Administrative Oral (1920)

G. Candidates Passing Higher Examinations or Bar Examinations

H. Timing of the Higher Examinations

I. Examination Fees and Costs

J. Structure of the Higher Examinations, 1884-1945

K. The Parties and "Free Appointment"

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-691-64975-8

1-4008-7623-0

OCLC:

966855835