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Finance minister Aso blasted for rejecting report on inadequate pension system
TOKYO – Current and former members of government advisory panels are criticizing Minister for Financial Services Taro Aso for rejecting a Financial Services Agency (FSA) panel report that an average elderly couple will need some 20 million yen on top of their public pension benefits to fund a 30-year post-retirement life.
They fear that if Cabinet ministers are allowed to refuse to accept reports from such panels that oppose the policies of the administration, bureaucrats will increasingly bow to those in power, preventing experts' views from being reflected in government policies.
Not a few members of advisory councils are choosing to keep silent about the matter for fear that their relations with government ministries and agencies could worsen.
"It's outrageous to ignore recommendations from experts while prioritizing the (upcoming House of Councillors) election," said a member of a working group within the FSA's Financial System Council.
The council sets up specialized working groups to deliberate policy issues including those focused on financial markets and the protection of investors.
In some cases, recommendations put together by working groups are not reflected in policy measures because of opposition from the ruling bloc. However, it was unprecedented that a minister in charge refused to even accept a report from one of these panels.
Aso, who also serves as deputy prime minister and finance minister, suggested that FSA bureaucrats who helped the group put together the report are to blame. "Those who worked on the matter should've done so a little more carefully," he told a news conference on June 14 following a regular Cabinet meeting.
The FSA working group member expressed grave concerns that Aso's move could discourage bureaucrats from proactively making proposals compiled by experts.
The panel member pointed out that those in power "could undermine bureaucrats by placing the blame on them, and cause them to increasingly bow to the administration's intentions" in policy recommendations.
The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who returned to power in late 2012, set up the Cabinet Bureau of Personnel Affairs in 2014, allowing the prime minister's office to gain control over the appointment of bureaucrats and increase its authority over ministries and agencies.
There are observations that Finance Ministry bureaucrats doctored documents on the heavily-discounted sale of a state-owned land lot to a school operator that was linked to Prime Minister Abe's wife Akie because the bureaucrats surmised the prime minister's intentions.
"A growing number of bureaucrats are trying to gauge politicians' reactions to their work. If bureaucrats were to reject opinions that are disadvantageous to politicians at the stage of coordinating views among panel members, then the existence of such advisory councils would be meaningless," said an individual who previously served as an advisory panel member.
Government advisory councils had previously been criticized for allowing bureaucrats to take advantage of experts' opinions to justify policy measures advantageous to themselves.
In response to such criticism, the Cabinet of then Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi decided in 1999 to increase transparency and independence of advisory panels by restricting the appointments of retired bureaucrats to such panels and taking other measures. The move is part of an administrative reform drive initiated by the government of Obuchi's predecessor, former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto.
A member of the Industrial Structure Council, an advisory panel to the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry, pointed out the latest moves by the prime minister's office has brought the reform of advisory panels to nothing.
"Advisory panels appear to have become like those in the pre-Hashimoto administrative reform period. The move is going against the times," the panel member lamented.
Only two of 21 members of the FSA panel's working group in question replied to a Mainichi Shimbun survey on Aso's move. This supports critics' complaints that the prime minister's office's increased control over government ministries and agencies has weakened the influence of bureaucrats and advisory panel members.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190621/p2a/00m/0fp/015000c
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