Comments on: Uncertainty and apathy in the new Japan http://whatjapanthinks.com/2009/09/19/uncertainty-and-apathy-in-the-new-japan/ From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys. Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: RMilner http://whatjapanthinks.com/2009/09/19/uncertainty-and-apathy-in-the-new-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-185231 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:06:05 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=2313#comment-185231 My wife is looking forwards to the increased child benefit.

I agree the bureaucracy has to be trimmed, but to what jobs will the sacked clerks go? The problem with the bureaucracy isn’t so much that it is bloated as that it is inefficient and corrupt (amakudawari, and so on.)

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