https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/opinion/08iht-edcha.html
Focus on Policy, Not Politics
By VICTOR D. CHA
Published: January 7, 2010

TOKYO ? There is a new sheriff in town. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Ichiro Ozawa,
secretary of the Democratic Party of Japan, are breaking the half-century of conservative
rule by the Liberal Democrat Party. But the problem is they lack a clear direction.

Bureaucrats who once ran the country like the autopilot on a jumbo airliner now openly
complain that monkeys (politicians) are in the cockpit
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