“ WE WORK for the nation, not for the cabinet minister," crows Kazagoshi Shingo, the hero of “ The Summer of Bureaucrats", a Japanese novel....
Published in 1975, the book captured the power of Japanese mandarins during the post-war boom, when graduates from elite universities clamoured for jobs in marquee ministries....
They made the machinery of the Japanese state whir. These days it is winter for Japan’s once-mighty civil service....
政治
铸币报-政治
2024-11-19 00:00:00.0