Watanabe retained for breaking resistance against amakudari cont

Watanabe retained for breaking resistance against amakudari cont

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshimi Watanabe, who was retained as administrative reform minister in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's reshuffled Cabinet, speaks at a press conference on Aug. 27. Watanabe broke bureaucrats' resistance and pushed through legislation against the practice of ''amakudari'' in which bureaucrats take postretirement jobs at entities related to the sectors they oversaw. (Kyodo)

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