Tokyo/Students give ministries hints on writing styleDaily Yomiuri, Japan - Sept 29
A group of female college students based in Tokyo researched white papers and blue papers released by the 12 government ministries and agencies to see how badly they were written.... carried out a research project titled "Objection to bureaucratic writing style!" .."At first, it was stressful just to read the documents," said Fukiko Takii, a 21-year-old student of Yokohama National University.
One sentence found in a white paper on agriculture contains 287 characters using 17 possessive particles, while the white paper on public corporations issued by the Public Management Ministry uses many vague conventional expressions such as "deal with each issue appropriately" and "conduct a drastic and systematic review."
.... a sentence from the Justice Ministry's white paper on human rights education, which talked about "implementing a project to cultivate awareness of human rights that develops a pioneering model program to study human rights and which nourishes an awareness in which behavior based on respect for human rights is unconsciously carried among people."
