Shimizu Yuichiro

2017-present Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University 2017-present Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University 2010-2017 Associate Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University 2007-2010 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University 2003-2007 Research Associate, The University of Tokyo 2002-2003 Research Assistant, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan 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 Modern Japanese Bureaucracy (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019, in English), 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. He has been interested in the Relationship between Politicians and Bureaucrats. His first book, Party and the Bureaucracy in Modern Japan: the Clash of the Constitutional Government (Tokyo: Fujiwara Shoten, 2007) (in Japanese), he discussed about this issue, and pointed out they found the way of collaboration and separation after the long conflict. His research is not only historical one, but also comparing Modern and Contemporary Japan. Because Japan has been faced on historical change in Politic, but there is not any experience about Government change more than a half century. Thus he experience in Modern Japan is the latest case to be referred. So he compiles a lot of Oral Histories to Politicians and Bureaucrats in Japan.

• Japanese Politics
• /Japanese Political History
• /Oral History
• /Japanese Political History
• /Modern Japanese History
• /Politico-bureaucrats relationship
• /Goverment Structure
• /Electoral System