ABSTRACT
In this chapter I explore the "official gaze" of Japan's modern cosmology, which, if analyzed, offers a view into the mechanics of sociopolitical and economic contro!. The official gaze motivates the entire educatio-examination regime. More specifically, and from the most generalizable to the more concrete, being watched by authority manufactures (1) the gaze itself; (2) "guidance" (slzidö); (3) "moral education" (dötoku kyöiku); (4) certain knowledge forms deemed significant by the authorities (positivistic worldview and Japaneseness); (5) interrogatorlinterrogatee dynamic; (6) examinations; and (7) being positioned in hierarchical lines of authority, such as senior/junior (sempailkölzai) relations. In the following sections, I discuss these aspects of Japan's national statist educatio-examination regime.
