Since 2006, a major drive for reform of the Japanese bureaucracy’s personnel system has been continuing in order to enhance political control over bureaucrats. In spite of a bipartisan agreement on the reform’s vision, heightened party competition has suspended its actual implementation.

Keywords:
political reform, civil service reform, administrative reform, cabinet, political leadership
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