
Business leader not to take immediate action on 'amakudari'
Kyodo News, July 11 TOKYO---Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Business Federation...better known as Nippon Keidanren, said Monday he will not take immediate action to prohibit top-ranking bureaucrats from working for private companies they previously supervised.
Hiroshi Okuda made the remarks at a news conference, in reference to a massive bid-rigging scandal involving Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and 25 other companies charged with rigging bids for the government's steel bridge construction projects....more...