An office set up to control "amakudari," the notorious practice of setting up lucrative executive-level jobs for retiring bureaucrats in industries they once oversaw, was defanged before it even got off the ground, government sources said Tuesday. Set up... ...full story at Japan Times
from Japan Times on Wed, Nov 04 2009
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