As the agency's top bureaucrat, he is the official most intimately involved in Japan's handling of its banks and financial markets.

The promotion will make him Japan's top bureaucrat in global finance.

It does not take long for a top bureaucrat to try to put a mental fence marked "no trespassing" around his department.

The job of the continent's top bureaucrat is important because whoever holds it can shape European policy.

In order to gather information, he had top bureaucrats shadowed by the police.

Take a tip from the nation's top bureaucrats.

The two officials were the focus of the ministry's annual shuffling of top bureaucrats.

The Secretary General is the top civilian bureaucrat in the department.

The top civil bureaucrat is the Secretary General of the administrative departments.

Raises of 20 to 30 percent for judges and other top bureaucrats.