Its seventeen months in power before the current catastrophe have been a saga of struggle with career officials in many parts of the bureaucracy, including the judiciary, fighting for the survival of the world they have always known. Other countries could learn much from the DPJ’s attempt to alter a status quo of political arrangements that has had half a century to form and consolidate.
菅直人政府的努力显然遭到了一个死板僵化且条块分割的官僚架构的阻碍。而民主党根本没有足够的时间去修补自民党留下的缺陷，该党在本次地震之前的17个月执政都是在与各大政府机构的职业官僚们反复拉锯中度过的——其中包括司法部门——是在为这个国家的存亡而奋斗。对此其他国家都可以从民主党尝试改变一个形成并巩固了长达半个世纪的政治制度现状的努力中学到一些东西。