Japan New Social Experiments

The chief priest draws the kanji character "Shin" for “new” at Kiyomizu temple, Kyoto

Every year the Standardized Kanji Test declares the

ideogram "kanji of the year." The official "kanji" for

2009 is "Shin", it means "new"...

The NEW thing in the archipelago is the new political

--not the economical, industrial, military, societal,

etc-- power shift. From a Liberal Democratic

Party-led government, Japan Inc. moved to a Trio,

some say a "spanish hotel" built coalition of 3

parties built by ex hard conservatives, liberals,

socialists, nationalists, pork barrel fanatics etc led

by the Democratic Party of Japan of Ozawa, Hatoyama,

Okada Triumvirate in September.

Well, you know what happened to Rome triumvirate don't

you? The fall of the Roman republic due to the

ambitions, egos, and jealousies. Even though, Rome

kept dictator led-regime.

In contemporary Japan the dictator (as his fellow

operators nicknamed him) is called Ozawa Ichiro and he

demonstrated his superb skills at putting in place

'politicking' populist policies, shifting long term

alliances, the US -Japan. On this, read here:

http://bit.ly/7CWPYB

Since the end of the second world war, this is the

first time in the history of Japanese constitutional

politics that an opposition party succeeded in a

change of regime, winning a single-party majority in a

parliamentary election...

Now we are in the Prime Minister Hatoyama "social

experiments" and the populace wonders gravely while

looking back at Year 2009 ...

One Keio scholar, Professor Yasunori Sone, exhausted

as most of his commentators-observers fellows had this

2 pieces of advise to avoid the mood of the people

rising anger of seeing that The Manifesto promises

were not to be implemented. Quotes:

"I can think of three cases for modification. First

is a drastic change in social and economic conditions.

It is a matter of course for the government to add new

measures if the nation is met by a serious economic

crisis comparable in magnitude with last year's

bankruptcy of US investment bank Lehman Brothers that

sent shockwaves across the world.

Second is the case in which the administration finds

out that its proposed policies are based on wrong data

or grounds after examining now-accessible government

documents. If that is the case, it could release a

revised version of the manifesto in time for the Upper

House election slated for next summer...

... As far as the DPJ's manifesto is concerned, since the

party promised to hand out money to the people under

its motto, "Putting people's lives first," it must not

completely abolish the child allowance program. It

must also refrain from raising the consumption tax

rate, which it did not spell out in the manifesto. If

the government needs to drastically change policies

that overstep the basic framework of the manifesto, it

should publish a new one and present it to the public

to seek popular will through a Lower House election."

The Op-Ed of Professor Yasunori Sone, here:

http://tinyurl.com/yes3dad

✍ Next year... experiments are?