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Balancing Political Leadership and Bureaucratic Autonomy
Scandals Highlight the Need for a Correction

After decades of reform aimed at strengthening the power of the prime minister and bringing the bureaucracy to heel, a ...

Strategies for Taxing the Digital Economy

As tensions mount over tax avoidance by US-based multinational tech giants, resident tax expert Shigeki Morinobu reports on multilateral efforts ...

View from the Social Sector
Engaging with Businesses for Sustainability

The best hope for seriously tackling global problems like environmental degradation and serious labor and human-rights abuses is the formation ...

The National Defense Strategy and the Indo-Pacific

"The NDS identifies the primary problem as a 'long-term strategic competition' with China and Russia and the erosion of US ...

Should Civil Servants Offer Allegiance or Expertise?
Lessons from the Moritomo and Kake Scandals

By allowing the prime minister and his circle to “fast-track” officials at their own discretion, the new system opens the ...