The nation’s top bureaucrats on Monday held their last meeting under the government of Prime Minister Taro Aso to set the agenda for the following day’s Cabinet meeting.
It was possibly the final such ritual because the Democratic Party of Japan, which will take the reins of government Wednesday, has vowed to shift power from bureaucrats to politicians.
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