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| Todai Law earned and maintained a reputation for producing students capable of passing the civil service exams. Similar to Harvard and Yale in the United States, it is now entrenched in national policymaking. | Civil service exams were instituted in the Meiji era to promote a professional and prestigious bureaucracy. Todai Law earned and maintained a reputation for producing students capable of passing the exams. Similar to Harvard and Yale in the United States, it is now entrenched in national policymaking. |
Japanese Ministries
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History
Pre-War
Civil service exams were instituted in the Meiji era to promote a professional and prestigious bureaucracy.
Todai Law earned and maintained a reputation for producing students capable of passing the exams. Similar to Harvard and Yale in the United States, it is now entrenched in national policymaking.
Post-War
Aside from the Home Ministry, much of Imperial Japan's government was left as-is by GHQ. This left the bureaucracy in a powerful position.
While ministers were elected members of the Diet, all other members of a ministry (up to and including vice ministers) were career bureaucrats. This led to a functional structure similar to the IMF; the minister as a figurehead, the vice minister as the de facto head.
This status was maintained by the amakudari system, whereby retiring bureaucrats were gifted a job by the vice minister exercising their high-level connections to corporate boards.