Kasumigaseki Literature

Kasumigaseki bungaku (霞が関文学): Kasumigaseki literature, named after the Tokyo district of the central ministries. The Ryukyu Shimpo newspaper defines it as the writing technique peculiar to bureaucrats of reworking a text so that it can be read another way, or so that its content is hollowed out.

A columnist on the site All About gave an example from the ruling parties. They wrote 178 man en o mezasu, we aim for 1.78 million yen. In his view, this made no promise. They never wrote 178 man en ni suru, we will make it 1.78 million yen.

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