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Out of the spotlight: Michael E. Stanley puts the focus on public-works projects that actually work.

From: Japan Inc.  |  Date: 12/1/2002  |  Author: Stanley, Michael E.

RECENTLY THE ANACHRONISTIC AND Byzantine system of Japanese public works spending has come under justifiably severe criticism. In last month's issue of J@pan Inc, we took a look at the matrix of ecological catastrophes developing as the climax to a half-century polk-baizel boondoggle in Nagasaki Prefecture's Isahaya Bay. That example of the corporate cum political cure bureaucratic incest has spawned a whole brood of problems that are just beginning to rear their ugly heads Looking ...

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