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...healthier statistics are proof that his structural economic reforms are working. As a sign of the increasing political capital that the rebound has provided him, Koizumi quickly shuffled his Cabinet, reappointing his controversial finance czar Heizo Takenaka and replacing the ailing 81-year-old Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa with Sadakazu Tanigaki, a younger, more reform-minded legislator...
More and more Japanese also believe that, by stressing industrial growth, they have shortchanged themselves in public amenities. Says Economist Sadakazu Chikaraishi: "Only by persistently keeping down our infrastructure investments have we been able to keep our industrial production soaring." The extent and quality of Japanese roads, parks and housing are far below Western standards. In Tokyo and Osaka, and other overcrowded cities many workers live in fragile wooden shacks that are crammed together in foul narrow lanes. Fully 90% of Japanese houses do not have flush toilets...