What Trips Up Japanese Prime Ministers
Gavin Blair, Christian Science Monitor | June 4, 2010
The resignation of yet another Japanese prime minister points to problems in the Japanese political system. ++ Japanese politicians rise to power through their affiliation with rich families.++ The political system remains “stuck in the old-fashioned status quo of the bureaucrats-politicians-business trinity governing.” ++ Japan’s press was instrumental in bringing down Mr. Hatoyama. ++ While his potential successor Mr. Noato Kan may not have “inherited power,” the press is unlikely to like his “infamously short temper.”
