Amakudari: Worthless Bums from Heaven

[GuyJean]

Tougher Rules Eyed for Amakudari
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20040307wo01.htm

With the aim of encouraging public servants to perform to the best of their ability, therefore invigorateing the bureaucracy, the LDP's new basic policies call for the introduction of a system requiring cabinet approval for the amakudari (descent from heaven) practice, in which retired bureaucrats land cushy jobs in the private sector or in semigovernmental organizations...

They also call for the establishment of a simple and readily understandable merit-based evaluation system..

Look! Up in the sky! It's a crow!.. It's a smoke-stack!.. No, it's Amakudari!! Government bums from heaven!

The government plans to start devising concrete measures (code for more public works projects?), the officials said.

Based on the outline for reforming the public servant system approved by the Cabinet in December 2001.... The government did not submit the bills to the Diet after the LDP complained that ministerial approval would reduce controls on amakudari and that the ability-ranking system was too complicated.

GJ

[cstaylor]

It's just like K-street in Washington... one year you're lobbied, the next you're the lobbyist.

[GuyJean]

[quote="cstaylor"]It's just like K-street in Washington... one year you're lobbied, the next you're the lobbyist. ]
Why can't this concept of recycling be trickled down to manufactured goods?..

Anyone hear a loud sucking sound off in the distance? I think it's coming from that public funded Amakudari whore house in Shinjuku; "Enjokudari-rando"

GJ

[Captain Japan]

[quote="GuyJean"]Anyone hear a loud sucking sound off in the distance? I think it's coming from that public funded Amakudari whore house in Shinjuku]

Guy, how the hell did you know my office was in Shinjuku?