The bureaucrats created a very centralized system that has become out of date, and unable to react to the world’s changes. We need a system that serves the people, not the bureaucracy and entrenched interest groups.
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Kazuhiro Haraguchi, the minister of internal affairs, on the task facing Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (New York Times)
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CoolCali
Well no kidding? Geez, finally someone with the stones to actually say it like it is. The kasumagaseki is a dinosaur. Actually, he's not the first. I forget the J-title, but there is a book out there, in English, called "Straightjacket Society" that explores and explains the completely &#$%*! up system that has paralyzed Japan for the last 20 some years.
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Canukle
Let's hope he can actually do something about it, and not just 'talk' about a 'study' concerned with 'the possibility' of doing away with the anitquated system.
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chotto
So they do know.
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Kronos
Well said but good luck with changing the system. There are lots of interests in there i.e. lots of people making a living through this structure. Expect a lot of resistance. Might also be Hatoyama's downfall depending on how he tackles it.
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