TESTS FOR CIVIL SERVANTS IN JAPAN
(11 a.m.) TOKIO, Jan. 16. Eight thousand ageing Japanese civil servants went back to school today at the orders of General MacArthur. They were the first batch of Japan’s millionstrong swollen bureaucracy to be tested for administrative efficiency. Balding and spreading officials from Vice-Ministers ,< down strained and sweated behind desks in 15 major cities. General MacArthur’s staff is attempting to streamline and modernise Japan’s hide-bound bureaucracy to make it more responsive to legislation passed by the Diet.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23154, 17 January 1950, Page 5
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83TESTS FOR CIVIL SERVANTS IN JAPAN Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23154, 17 January 1950, Page 5
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