TOKYO, Sept. 2, 2021—On Sept. 1, 2021, the Japanese government opened a new government agency, the Digital Agency, that the current administration claims – the public doesn’t buy the idea seeing it as yet another entity to create jobs for bureaucrats by wasting taxpayer money – as imperative for accelerating Japan’s lagging information-technology development.
It was a new government office created by the cabinet of PM Suga, whose political life is looking on the line every day. He also has instructed aides to create ‘a child agency’ over the next several months.
Suga, who faces a general election by mid-October, is not alone about creating a new government office. One of his contenders vying for the prime minister’s seat, Fumio Kishida, former policy affairs chair of Suga’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Sept. 2 told reporters that he would create ‘a health risk management agency’ if he wins the LDP presidential race to be held later in September.
Those developments aren’t a coincidence or coming out of necessity: It underscores the growing incompetence of politicians that want to cling to power and the Japanese bureaucracy’s shrewdness and chicanery for survival.
True to this view, the Digital Agency has zero substance yet lots of staff already.
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