Staff Number Control in Japan
| Published date | 01 June 1982 |
| Author | The Administrative Management Agency |
| DOI | 10.1177/002085238204800207 |
| Date | 01 June 1982 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Staff Number Control in Japan
UDC : 35.082.37 (52)
by
THE ADMINISTRATIVE
MANAGEMENT AGENCY
I. CURRENT SITUATION OF THE
tive Management Agency’s ordinary control
NUMBER OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
of the numbers of staff of the ministries and
IN JAPAN
agencies under the Cabinet. There are a total
of 1,200,089 national public employees when
1. Brief Profile of the Number of
those in special positions such as Ministers,
Public Employees
Parliamentary Vice-Ministers, and commission
and committee members in the administrative
The total number of national public em-
bodies, staffs
s of the legislative and judicial
ployees in administrative organizations in Japan
branch, and those of the Board of Audit, the
(full-time and permanent positions) was
National Personnel Authority, and the Self-
898,265 at the end of the 1981 fiscal year
Defense Forces are included.
Civilian em-
(March 1982). This is the number of public
ployees excluding members of the Self-Defense
employees who are subject to the Administra-
Forces total 928,909 (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Total Number of National Public Employees
(as at March 31, 1982)
Notes
1. Number of Public Employees by Branches of
2. Personnel costs of national public employees
Government :
(as at March 31 1982)
amount to Y5,836.3 billion in the 1981 fiscal year
Legislative Branch
4,069
budget; including related expenses, they account
Judicial Branch
24,496
for approximately 7 percent of the total national
Executive Branch
1,171,524
budget expenditure.
Total
1,200,089
Public employees in the broadest sense
Japan, there are approximately 45 public em-
number 5,306,677 including national and local
ployees per one thousand people (42 when
public employees as well as those in the pub-
those in the national defense related areas are
lic sector such as government-related enter-
excluded). The size of the
prises. Figure 2 gives
government work-
a breakdown.
force in Japan is by far the smallest of the
In comparison with the total population of
major industrialised nations (Table 1).
155
Figure 2. Total Number of Public Employees
Table 1. Comparison of the Number of Public Employees
in Japan and Other Nations
1. Figures indicating the number of national public
2. Figures in parentheses are the number of public
employees are, in principle, those of 1980 with
employees per thousand of the population.
the exception of West Germany.
2. Trends in the Number of
ministrative demands reflecting high economic
National Public Employees
growth. (It increased by 33.4 percent or by
approximately 225,000 persons from 674,000
(1) Trends in the total number of staff
at the end of the 1957 fiscal year to 899,000
at the end of the 1967 fiscal year).
The number of national public employees
increased drastically up until the first half of
In order to restrain administrative expansion
the 1960s due to the sharp expansion of ad-
and achieve a streamlined and efficient admin-
156
istrative system, the Law concerning the Fixed
national public employees have been restrained
Number of Personnel of Administrative Organs
since the 1967 fiscal year.
(hereinafter referred to as &dquo; the Total Staff
Past trends in the number of staff of national
Number Law &dquo;) was enacted in May 1969.
administrative organizations excluding the
The law stipulates the upper limits of the
Self-Defense Forces and those in the admin-
number of non-industrial staff of the ministries
istrative organizations in Okinawa (7,970
and agencies, in order to achieve the rational
persons), which was returned to Japan from
the United States in May 1970, are shown
and flexible management of personnel. In
below. (It declined by 1 percent or by ap-
addition, through the implementation of the
proximately 9,000 persons, from 899,000 at
personnel reduction plan established in the
the end of the 1967 fiscal year down to
1968 fiscal year, increases in the number of
890,000 at the end of the 1981 fiscal year).
Figure 3. Number of National Public Employees
Reference 1. Trends in the Number of Public Employees
Reference 2. Comparisons with Major Indices of Japan
157
Table 2. Trends in the Number of Staff in Ministries and Agencies
(Fiscal years 1967-1981)
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(2) Trends in the number of staff
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