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050 00 $aHE7275$b.M233 2011
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100 1 $aMaclachlan, Patricia L.
245 14 $aThe people's post office :$bthe history and politics of the Japanese postal system, 1871-2010 /$cPatricia L. Maclachlan.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Asia Center ;$bDistributed by Harvard University Press,$c2011.
300 $axx, 358 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aHarvard East Asian monographs ;$v338
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [333]-347) and index.
505 0 $a"Making use of private energies": the origins and early evolution of the modern Japanese postal system -- Public servants with private interests : postwar commissioned postmasters and the politics of self-preservation -- The commissioned postmasters : the view from inside -- The postwar postal regime and the failure of reform -- Setting the stage: the Hashimoto reforms -- Koizumi Jun'Ichiro and the politics of postal privatization -- Conclusion: the revenge of the postal regime -- Reference matter -- Works cited -- Index.
650 0 $aPostal service$zJapan$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aPostal service$zJapan$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPostal service$zJapan$xHistory$y21st century.
651 0 $aJapan$xPolitics and government.
830 0 $aHarvard East Asian monographs ;$v338.