“Japan’s ‘government capabilities’ are overwhelmingly low…ranked lower than Kazakhstan”

https://president.jp/articles/-/110303?page=1

9 Comments

  1. “Government capability” is measured by “Monetary, fiscal, labor and competition policies, taxation, monetary policy, tariffs, competition policy, labor policy, and social freedom and stability.”

    The author stresses this does not mean that the Japanese government is not filled with highly capable public workers, but rather

    >”What I’m questioning here isn’t the ability of individual bureaucrats, but whether the government, as an organizational system, is able to flexibly respond to changes in society and efficiently utilize limited resources in order to achieve a prosperous economy and stable society”.

  2. How is ranking calculated? I assume the giant government debt might have something to do with it.

  3. Otherwise_Patience47 on

    I wonder how they will bend this into being fault of the foreigners. I’m sure they will come with some theory very soon.

  4. FerenzYangai on

    Japanese hate all of texts including statistics and laws, this outcome is not surprising to me.

  5. No shit. And any time one dares to suggest optimizing the workflow, there are comments “what about the people who will be out of job”.

    Yeah, if yamada-san who’s only job is to organize printed applications and juuminhyous is fired/relocated, it’s not really a huge loss.

  6. hamabenodisco on

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    Filtration system a marvel to behold.

    It remove 80 percent

    of human solid waste.

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    you very nice place.

    From Plains of Tarashek to

    Norther fence of Jewtown.

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    From junction with the

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