It’s even more difficult these days because we are in the age of so-called monitory democracy – everything is reported and often amplified in a distorted way. This didn’t start recently – it’s long been like this in Japan. Things work reasonably well without the prime minister.
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Takashi Inoguchi, professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo. He says the Japanese media tend to turn on leaders en masse, leaving them subject to an undiluted stream of bad press. (Christian Science Monitor)
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smartacus
Exactly. Who needs a prime minister anyway? The bureaucrats have all the power.
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