Yuitirou Simizu

Yuichiro Shimizu is Professor of Japanese Politics and History in the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University, Japan.

His research and teaching focus on Japanese political history. His recent book, The Origins of the Modern Japanese Bureaucracy(London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019), describes the process of nation building in Meiji and Taisho Japan from the view point of making and enhancing national elite. He point out the open door policy of bureaucracy as the route of making Japanese democracy.

More details: http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~yuichiro/