Editorials Sep 1, 2018
The government is depriving depriving people with disabilities of the job opportunities they deserve.
NEWSWORTHY
Issues | LAW OF THE LAND Aug 5, 2018
The Kanpo: Where everything in Japan goes to happen (officially)
by Colin P.A. Jones
Read all about it in the government's daily gazette, from laws and notices of naughtiness to deaths and even poetry.
World / Politics Jun 21, 2018
White House to propose merging Labor and Education departments: report
The White House plans to propose on Thursday to merge the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Citing a person with knowledge of the proposal, the Journal said the plan follows a review of Cabinet agencies that looked ...
National Jan 16, 2018
Japan OKs online action plan to streamline process for changing addresses
The government announced Tuesday an action plan focused on streamlining the process for residents to change their addresses with one-stop online access. The plan was adopted during a ministerial meeting on making the government more efficient in the internet age held at the Prime Minister's ...
Business Dec 26, 2017
Government-backed lender taps ex-Finance Ministry official as chief in 'amakudari' appointment
Former Vice Finance Minister Kazuho Tanaka has been tapped as the next governor and chief executive of Japan Finance Corp. to succeed Koichi Hosokawa, 70, one of Tanaka's predecessors at the ministry. The transfer of the top post of a government-affiliated financial institution from one ...
Issues | LAW OF THE LAND Oct 15, 2017
Duck and cover: Regulation by and for the state, through the Japanese people
by Colin P.A. Jones
Bureaucrats rustle up policies that require citizens to do their duty, however irrationally.
Issues | LAW OF THE LAND Sep 3, 2017
How Japan got new contract law it neither wants nor needs
by Colin P.A. Jones
One possible explanation for the inexplicable change in contract law: It is a giant experiment driven by academic hubris and bureaucratic ambition.
Editorials Aug 13, 2017
A series of scandals has exposed the inadequacies of a guideline that governs the management of official documents by government ministries and agencies.
Editorials Jul 9, 2017
The government must come up with a better way to maintain official documents and make them available to the public.
Commentary / Japan Jun 28, 2017
Toshiba deal repeats Japan Inc.'s old mistakes
by Michael Schuman
With their persistent interference, the bureaucrats are hurting, not helping Japan's prospects.
Commentary / World Jun 10, 2017
The sin of engineering without a license
by George F. Will
Bureaucrats buttress their power by making the exercise of a constitutional right contingent on government approval.
National Feb 6, 2017
'Amakudari' scheme at ministry systemized by '13, education chief reveals
by Mizuho Aoki
The education ministry had established a systematic practice for seeking new jobs for retiring bureaucrats via a retired official by around 2013, the education minister disclosed Monday.