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Granted, Class of 2009 graduates Peter Ajayi, Desmond Bryant, Matt Curtis, Glenn Dorris, and Eric Schultz weren’t exactly your run-of-the-mill defense—all five received All-Ivy recognition in their senior season, propelling Harvard to a second-straight Ancient Eight title.
"Hatoyama is dead serious about changing the way Japan is governed," says Columbia University's Curtis, who points out that his Cabinet appointments clearly demonstrate the DPJ's view that ministerial positions are critical to policy, that important decisions won't be left to the bureaucrats as in past administrations...
Other experts say Ozawa's new role is more focused on the interests of the party. Says Jun Okumura, a senior advisor at the think tank Eurasia Group and a former government official: "It's Hatoyama's Cabinet, and Ozawa's party. I don't think Ozawa will meddle on...
The DPJ must keep a lid on deficit spending "to demonstrate that they're fiscally responsible," says Gerald Curtis, a Japanese-politics expert and professor at Columbia University. Not everyone is convinced they'll succeed. Masaaki Kanno, chief economist at JPMorgan Securities in Tokyo, is skeptical that cutting wasteful spending...
The DPJ plans to appoint 100 ruling-party politicians to oversee ministries. In order to transfer more power to the Cabinet - and away from ministry bureaucrats - the DPJ will also replace the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, an advisory group to the Prime Minister's office set up in...