As a defeated country in World War II, Japan's economy ushered in new opportunities for recovery and development in the 1960s. When former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew talked about Japan's post-war success, he directly attributed it to "Japan has one of the best senior civil servants." As Japan's economic guidance department, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry has a group of elite civil servants who work with the goal of "indefinite time and unlimited quantity". The novel "Summer of Bureaucracy" describes the story of the fierce struggle between the civil servant elite headed by Fukoshi Shingo and other provincial ministries and the "trade faction" in the province for the revitalization of national industries, as well as the personnel disputes within the province. This book takes the protagonist Shingo Fukoshi as a guide, and uses the multiple industrial policies that this "domestic industrialist" general vigorously promoted in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, as well as the debate and power ebb and flow between him and the so-called "international trade faction" to outline how public officials weighed the gap between ideals and reality, and oscillated between compromise and persistence under the country's "big self" during the era known as the "Oriental Miracle" in Japan.
Reader comments
In the book, Fugoshi Shingo works hard for the revitalization of national industries. This spirit is very admirable. I think this book can not only help us understand Japan's economic development, but also feel the ideals and persistence of public officials. It makes me believe that on the road to pursuing our dreams, we must have firm faith and unremitting efforts💪. Have you read "Naoki Hansawa"? I thought you might like this book.
In the book, Fugoshi Shingo works hard for the revitalization of national industries. This spirit is very admirable. I think this book can not only help us understand Japan's economic development, but also feel the ideals and persistence of public officials. It makes me believe that on the road to pursuing our dreams, we must have firm faith and unremitting efforts💪. Have you read "Naoki Hansawa"? I thought you might like this book.