The Reform Of Japanese Civil Servant System In New Century And Its Inspirations

The civil service system is set up in the process of fighting against the favoritism and the "pork barrel" system. It has became an indisputable fact that the civil service system can achieve the most effective effect of the public personnel management and a lot of Western scholars believe that the system and the party politics are the two pillars of the political system in the capitalist countries.It is generally believed that Japan's fast post-war recovery and rapid economic growth are distributed to its series of system which is favorable to the economic development. In this set of system, the civil service system is in no doubt that has the most critical and central location because of its uniqueness. Moreover, a considerable number of scholars believe that the success of "Japan model" can be seemed as that the success of the Japanese civil service system in certain extent, which also makes the Japanese civil service system be highly praised in china and attracted the attention of scholars in other states .However, such a success began to reveal all sorts of defects after the rapid economic growth period of Japan, which resulting in more and more criticism on its negative effects. In these circumstances, the Japanese government began to plan for the reform of the civil service system from the end of the 20th century and began a drastic reform on the Civil Service system at the beginning of the new century. Then, how was Japanese civil service system formatted and developed? Which characteristics it has as such a successful system? Which kind of problem the system has encountered under the new social circumstances? Where does the reform focus on in the new century? Which problems do they encountered in the course of reform... All those questions are we must concern about.Based on these questions, this article traced the process of the formation and development of Japanese civil service system and summed up the characteristics of Japanese-style civil service system. This article also summed up the hardship that the Japanese civil service system had suffered in the new century, introduced the measures of the Japanese civil service reform in the new century, generalized a variety of arguments resulted from the reform. From all of the above, this article attempted to make a clear awareness on the reform and in turn to provide some useful inspiration on Chinese civil service system which is still in the period of explore andimprovement.