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Stop and take a look around the next time you travel through your hometown. I’d bet good money that the entire civil infrastructure of your city—roads, airports, train stations, dams, aqueducts, reservoirs, courthouses, schools, hospitals, electrical transmission lines, garbage dumps, sewer treatment plantsâ?...
Getting that sort of rise out of the market?or from Japanese consumers?today would take a little magic. What's certain is that Koizumi cannot depend on the smoke and mirrors favored by his predecessors. For most of the past decade, Japan has stuck like rust to its failed...
Once in office, Tanaka didn't let up. He ignored the entrenched bureaucrats who run things in Nagano, opened the ledger books so the public could see how much his office spends, and announced his intention to cut public-works spending by 15% and stop the construction of expensive dams...
There is a lot of talk about destroying things in Japan these days. The ldp. The bureaucracy. The outdated banking system. So Tanaka's experience in Nagano is an instructive parable for the rest of Japan, and in particular, for rebel Prime Minister Koizumi. Can Tanaka show the way in...
Tanaka may well fade away and leave little behind but a legacy of chuckles about his pero-guri adventures; in the same way, people may someday remember nothing about Koizumi but his haircut. But don't count either of them out yet, because they are both getting unwitting help from...