2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Swelling Bureaucracy and its Cause in Modern Japanese Government
| Project/Area Number |
20530105
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | Hiroshima University |
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Principal Investigator |
MORIBE Seiichi 広島大学, 大学院・社会科学研究科, 教授 (50210183)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2011
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| Keywords | 政治学 / 日本史 / 行政学 |
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| Research Abstract |
The one of features of Japanese bureaucracy in the central government before the Second World War was, firstly, a huge weight of employees in State owned corporations such as National Railway and Telephone & Telegraph. Civil servants in public business sector amounted to 60-65% of all employees of government after the Russo-Japanese War. Secondly, after the First World War, Bureaucracy in the central government was remarkably swelling. The number of bureaus increased from 39 of them to 59 and the number of divisions also increased 125 of them to 225. This means that the area covered by public policies were expand all over the society. In spite of these expansion, the cabinet and its supporting organization had not been developed until later 1930s. The number of bureaucrats in Cabinet Office continued to be too small to integrate the swelled bureaucracy.
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