Here I am with Garrett of Trans Pacific Radio at the Pink Cow in Shibuya the on Tuesday. We had a discussion about some of the biggest stories of 2009. Watch here!
Topics covered:
– The Noriko Sakai scandal and the arrest of Tatsuya Ichihashi: Sakai received more media coverage than the election. The two cases illustrate how police can hold a suspect for weeks and try and press for a confession.
– The new DPJ government: Adamu is a little on the fence about the government’s new way of doing things but supports them on balance. A point that I didn’t quite get to articulate as well as I wanted: once the DPJ eliminates some of the institutions, they will have to fundamentally re-organize the personnel policies of the bureaucracy so there won’t be so many senior bureaucrats who feel entitled to post-retirement jobs. Such reforms could even prove a model to creating a less rigid private sector labor system as well.
[Edited to move video after the jump, as it autoplays on some computers.]
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– DPJ agenda: There is a good chance that the DPJ will scale back some of its campaign promises, a process that seems to be playing out.
Hmmm, the embed is not showing up in my browser — is there an alternative link?
Here you go, will fix in post:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Pink-Cow-Connections
I enjoyed the interview, but it auto-plays whenever I open the page. Any way to stop that?
Unfortunately not. It is weird. We will just have to keep posting until this falls off the front page!