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Governance, ignorance, and archives = sharing critical information in contemporary Japanese society /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Governance, ignorance, and archives/ edited by Keiji Fujiyoshi.
Reminder of title:	sharing critical information in contemporary Japanese society /
other author:	Fujiyoshi, Keiji.
Published:	Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore : : 2025.,
Description:	xiii, 113 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Government information - Japan. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-1962-0
ISBN:	9789819519620

Governance, ignorance, and archives = sharing critical information in contemporary Japanese society /
Governance, ignorance, and archivessharing critical information in contemporary Japanese society /[electronic resource] :edited by Keiji Fujiyoshi. - Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :2025. - xiii, 113 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.

Chapter 1. Public Scandals that Raised Awareness of the Government's Records Management (Fujiyoshi) -- Chapter 2. Progress and Problems of Records Management Laws in Japan: A Gap between the Archival System and Information Laws (Okada) -- Chapter 3. Archives in National Constitutions (Yokodaido) -- Chapter 4. Organising Local Government Archives in Japan: Current Status and Challenges (Jodai) -- Chapter 5. Immigration and Records Management in Japan (Fukushima) -- Chapter 6. How has the Japanese style of organization influenced records management and information disclo-sure practices? (Isomura) -- Chapter 7. Public Recordkeeping System and Professionals in Japan: Focusing on the " Standard of Tasks and Competencies for Archivist " (Shimoju) -- Chapter 8. Presence of the Calculable: Impacts and Implications of Data Collection in Contemporary Iran (Abe).

Taking Japan as a heuristic example, this book explores the significance of neatly kept and classified records and archives to maintain a democratic society. Japan adopted constitutional monarchy as a state system in the nineteenth century and then amended it to become a democracy in the twentieth century. How the evaluation of public and governmental records has and has not changed for almost a century is an indication of the maturity of democracy in Japan. How and to what extent the records of the government are disclosed to and shared with the public are among the fundamental criteria to assess the quality and maturity of democracy in a society. From this point of view, the book examines the current status of records and archives management in several spheres of Japanese society, with some international comparative studies as well. On the one hand, Japan is a society that has attached great importance to written documents, which is evident when one sees how carefully ordinary people kept diverse kinds of documents even in the pre-modern period. On the other hand, the public at large has long been indifferent to the records and archives that serve as fundamental infrastructure to keep the governance of society transparent and accountable. By examining those contradictory aspects of the attitudes toward records and archives in Japanese society, this book provides the key elements of management of critical information for a democratic society.

ISBN: 9789819519620

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-95-1962-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1502594
Government information
--Japan.

LC Class. No.: KNX3042

Dewey Class. No.: 342.520662

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