Tag: pork barrel politics
Pork barrel politics
WotD: Pork barrel politics People, Japanese and visitors to Japan, often ask me why I chose to live in the countryside, especially Wakayama. My answer is dependent on pork barrel politics. Pork barrel politics is government spending intended to benefit constituents of a politician in return for their political support. In the extreme, it’s politicians openly…
Have blinders on
Idiom: Have blinders on There is a plethora of ongoing scandals in Japan involving government members or close associates. One primary reason for this is the political class in Japan tends to go through life while wearing blinkers. Another is that they fail to understand the reach of technology in modern society, but we won’t…
