Abstract
Richard Varney’s article written in 1947 titled “The position of a forester in Japan” in the Journal of Forestry sharply described the problematic situation of the national forest management system in Japan at the time. This paper aims to discuss what we can learn from Varney’s article with its Japanese translation. He insisted that the bureaucracy dominated by senior members of the civil service was the biggest obstacle, and his warning still has plenty of meaning for the situation of forest administration in Japan today.
