In its bid to exert political control over the bureaucracy, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s government has decided to forbid bureaucrats from holding news conferences.
The government also decided to abolish administrative vice ministers’ biweekly meetings, in which the top bureaucrats in the various ministries have gathered to coordinate policies on Mondays and Thursdays before Cabinet meetings the next day.
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