What 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 no

"What 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

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