THE GOVERNMENT OF MODERN JAPAN: THE JAPANESE BUREAUCRACY Becoming an Elite Bureaucrat |
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Gerald L. Curtis :: To become a bureaucrat, an elite bureaucrat in Japan, one has to pass a very difficult and competitive national examination. Most of those who pass this exam and are admitted into the Japanese elite bureaucracy are all graduates, not only of the same university, but of the same department of the same university. Most Japanese bureaucrats are graduates of the Law Faculty of the University of Tokyo. And the Law Faculty of the University of Tokyo, at least traditionally, has been regarded as the best and the most difficult department in the best and the most difficult university in Japan. So that Japanese bureaucrats have had a reputation as representing the best and the brightest of the Japanese population. |
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