{"product_id":"the-origins-of-the-modern-japanese-bureaucracy-paperback","title":"The Origins of the Modern Japanese Bureaucracy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYuichiro Shimizu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Gerteis\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAmin Ghadimi\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing cutting-edge Japanese scholarship to a global audience, \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of the Modern Japanese Bureaucracy\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYuichiro Shimizu\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor in the Faculty of Policy Management at Keio University, Japan. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBirth of the Bureaucrats \u003c\/i\u003e(2013), \u003ci\u003eParty and the Bureaucracy in Modern Japan: Clash of the Constitutional Government\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmin Ghadimi \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor of International Studies at Utsunomiya University, Japan, having received his doctorate from Harvard University, USA. He has published articles in \u003ci\u003eSocial Science Japan Journal \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGlobal Intellectual History.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 22, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51786311893280,"sku":"9781350245068","price":80.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f7a22dcf1ce31c20cbe17ba6cba207f7.webp?v=1780631740","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-origins-of-the-modern-japanese-bureaucracy-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}