"The Responsibility of Bureaucrats" Shigeaki Koga Price: ¥792 #ShigeakiKoga #Books #BOOK #Nonfiction #Education "Kasumigaseki is a graveyard for talent" - the author cuts straight to the point. Japan's best and brightest, graduates of the most prestigious universities, filled with ambition when they entered the ministries. However, their code of conduct is not "for the country" but "for the ministry." They are preoccupied with expanding their vested interests and securing their positions, and they don't consider amakudari (post-retirement jobs in related industries) or sabotage shameful... Why do bureaucrats go down the path of corruption? Japan's fiscal situation is dire. If we leave them, who have lost their policy-making abilities, this country will end. A reform-minded bureaucrat from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, feared by the political and bureaucratic worlds and ultimately forced to resign, exposes the ecosystem of the closed-off, demonic realm.