WHO NEEDS REFORM WHEN YOU HAVE ZEN NONSENSE?:

Japan's 'Change' Agenda (Fred Hiatt, September 28, 2009 , Washington Post)

By voting for change, Hatoyama told me during an interview last week, "each individual in the United States has gained vitality within themselves. We too, by changing our closed politics, have been able to generate vitality within each individual in Japan." [...]

But is there a coherent agenda? To the United Nations last week, Hatoyama brought a promise to reduce Japan's greenhouse gas emissions by far more than his predecessors had pledged. At home, meanwhile, his government is reducing the gasoline tax, fulfilling one of many populist promises his party made to win election.

You can change undertakers, but you still end up buried.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 28, 2009 7:33 AM