For example, the newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun recently lamented the shortcomings of the Kan government’s response, emphasizing the poor lines of command running from the cabinet to officials carrying out rescue and supply operations. But it failed to point out that the feebleness of such coordination, linked to an absence of cabinet-centered policymaking, was precisely the main weakness of Japan’s political system that the founders of the DPJ set out to overcome.
不幸的是，当今的日本媒体却忽视了这一历史背景。比如说《日本经济新闻》最近就不断批评菅直人政府救灾反应的不足之处，重点着墨于内阁和负责营救和供应行动的官员之间的指挥不通畅。但该报却没有指出这种协作之所以扭曲，恰恰是因为日本缺乏以内阁为中心的政策制定体制，而这也正是民主党领导人致力于克服的日本政治系统重大弱点。