The administration of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is making steady progress in ensuring lawmakers take the lead in all government ministry and agency decision-making regarding policy issues, ending their long reliance on the skills and expertise of bureaucrats. At a meeting of leading members of the government and the Democratic Party of Japan on Monday, they decided to increase the number of senior vice ministers and parliamentary secretaries by 15. But bureaucrats in government ministries...
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