Absolute bullshit. Those bureaucrats are far more educated than Koizumi, but they make a faceless target to cover his real reason: he's trying to strengthen his flanks because he knows from the polls that he's losing the young vote after Mori convinced him to jettison Tanaka. The old usually vote Hashimoto, so if he can draw enough of them away with his nationalist behavior, he might survive another term.The Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, is said to have been moved to action after receiving a particularly incomprehensible document from financial bureaucrats.
