The emphasis of public administration has been on fairness and equality. These characteristics of public administration could easily lead to ignoring productivity and efficiency on the pretext of public fairness or official responsibility. Improvement of productivity in public administration could not only reduce the burden of the people but also contribute to higher quality of public services. In this paper, the author examines the background, the concept and a few major achievements of the Administrative Reform of the Japanese government.
Public Administration -- Japan Administrative Agencies -- Reorganization -- Japan