RE: tlug: Net Day

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "jb" == Jonathan Byrne--3Web <jq@example.com> writes:

    jb> Hashimoto Ryutaro, AKA "Oily Boy," the prime minister :-)

    jb> Ability-wise, he seems more capable than his predecessor (who
    jb> wouldn't be?), but he doesn't seem to have enough power and
    jb> friends to accomplish any real reform.

Nobody but Tanaka Kakuei would, and (a) he's most of the problem and
(b) dead.

Wisecracks aside, the Big Bang, Japanese edition, is _real_ reform.
And my estimate is that in 5 years it will force internal reform on
the economic bureaucracy (I don't mean just the MOF, either), and
thence the politicians.
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