Jin Murai, who defeated incumbent Yasuo Tanaka in Sunday's Nagano gubernatorial election, indicated Monday he will remove the glassed-in office that his predecessor set up to symbolize the transparency of his administration.
"The glassed-in office may have changed the appearance of the prefectural administration, but I don't think transparency in the actual decision-making process was achieved," Murai, a former veteran Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker, told a news conference in the city of Nagano.
He also criticized Tanaka, saying personnel affairs at the prefectural government had suffered under his leadership, as he often heard people say bureaucrats who opposed the governor were relegated to inferior jobs.