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BUREAUCRACY

Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 12, 2018
Abe-led panel mandates anti-sexual harassment training for senior officials but shelves talks on law to penalize harassers
Tokyo on Tuesday decided to mandate senior officials undergo training aimed at preventing sexual harassment following a string of revelations of inappropriate behavior involving bureaucrats.
Japan Times
JAPAN
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.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Oct 15, 2017
Duck and cover: Regulation by and for the state, through the Japanese people
Bureaucrats rustle up policies that require citizens to do their duty, however irrationally.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Sep 3, 2017
How Japan got new contract law it neither wants nor needs
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
Enhancing government accountability
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
Poor handling of government documents
The government must come up with a better way to maintain official documents and make them available to the public.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 28, 2017
Toshiba deal repeats Japan Inc.'s old mistakes
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
Bureaucrats buttress their power by making the exercise of a constitutional right contingent on government approval.
EDITORIALS
Apr 6, 2017
'Amakudari' remains an issue
Bureaucrats landing jobs in the private sector on the basis of the powers of government ministries and agencies sows the seeds of corruption.
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2017
Education ministry probe finds 62 illegal cases of 'amakudari'
The education ministry said Thursday it has confirmed 62 cases in which current or former employees acted illegally in finding jobs for retired or retiring bureaucrats.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 18, 2017
'Amakudari' probe expands to Foreign Ministry as 30 new cases turn up
The education ministry's involvement in illegally finding jobs for retiring bureaucrats expands to the Foreign Ministry as 30 new cases emerge.
EDITORIALS
Feb 23, 2017
Dig up all the 'amakudari' dirt
Revelations of 'amakudari' at the education ministry underline the need for all ministries and agencies to undergo strict investigations to root out the practice across the government.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2017
'Amakudari' scandal widens as education ministry finds new cases
The education ministry found 17 new cases in which its personnel had been involved in illegally securing post-retirement positions for bureaucrats in recent years, the ministry said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2017
'Amakudari' scheme at ministry systemized by '13, education chief reveals
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.
JAPAN
Jan 27, 2017
Government-wide 'amakudari' probe to be launched next week
A government-wide inquiry into the preferential hiring of former public servants will be launched next week, the minister in charge of civil service reform said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Jan 25, 2017
Get to the bottom of 'amakudari'
The practice of 'amakudari' remains widespread despite regulations tightened to prevent collusive ties between the bureaucracy and industries.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 19, 2017
Top education ministry bureaucrat to resign over revolving-door appointment
Kihei Maekawa is alleged to have illegally secured a senior official a post-retirement university job, a senior ministry official said.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 5, 2016
Court settles legal battle over stroke victim's job performance
The plaintiff had demanded the National Personnel Authority revoke its evaluations and pay u00a53 million in compensation.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues
Dec 4, 2016
Japan's Board of Audit: unlikely guardians of the Constitution?
On Nov. 7, an annual ritual of government occurred: The Board of Audit delivered its report on the results of its audit of government accounts for the previous fiscal year (April 1, 2015, to March 31, 2016) to the Cabinet. The 1,123-page paper brick handed over to His Abe-ness identified billions of yen's worth of improper expenditures or accounting and trillions of yen's worth of things that could be done more efficiently. On Nov. 18 the Cabinet submitted the report to the Diet, and perhaps sometime next summer the legislature will debate what it all means.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 1, 2016
Bureaucratic blockage in Japanese society
Japan has kept the external appearances of social dialogue, but politicians and managers have failed to adapt institutions to the new social realities.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.

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