Prime Minister Taro Aso said Tuesday he plans by year’s end to effectively ban ministries and agencies from being go-betweens in finding “amakudari” and “watari” jobs for their retiring officials.
The government meanwhile said a new bureau to be established at the Cabinet secretariat in April 2010 will assume the personnel functions of administrative agencies now handled by the National Personnel Authority.
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