For a long time, the bureaucracy–in all its elitist, meritocratic glory–has taken a great deal of the credit for Japan’s postwar economic miracle. But how much of that credit does it actually deserve? Plus, some ruminations on the post-1990s fate of the bureaucracy and its general history.
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Koh, B.C. Japan’s Administrative Elite.
Johnson, Chalmers. MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975
Johnson, Chalmers. Japan: Who Governs? The Rise of the Developmental State
Henderson, David R. Japan and the Myth of MITI. From Econolib.org
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