THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 21, 2020 at 19:00 JST
Photo Taro Kono, state minister in charge of administrative reform, tweets a news article on the education ministry’s customary practice of greeting new officials after midnight with his blunt advice, “Just stop,” on Sept. 19. (The Asahi Shimbun)
More than 100 bureaucrats at the education ministry were still burning the midnight oil on Sept. 18, but not because all of them wanted to. Most felt obligated to be on hand to greet two vice ministers and two ministerial aides newly coined by the Suga administration. [Read More]
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