Moreover, Japan’s powerful bureaucracy – which has a long history of impeding reform (and has taken too little of the blame for the country’s “lost decades” of stagnation) – was probably not convinced that the election had authorized Abe to push for sweeping change. Expecting Abe to show the same inertia as the DPJ premiers who preceded him, they behaved in the way they always had – advancing their own interests, instead of faithfully enacting the policies of the elected government.
此外，日本强势官僚机构在掣肘改革方面有着悠久历史却又极少为“失去十年”的经济停滞承担罪责，这些官僚或许对选举结果已经赋予安倍推动彻底变革的权力并不认可。他们希望安倍像前任民主党首相那样不思进取，他们则延续之前惯用的行为模式——不是忠实推动当选政府制定的政策，而是追求他们自身的利益。