Japan's prime minister Junichiro Koizumi should have removed finance minister Masajuro Shiokawa in his recent cabinet reshuffle
Junichiro Koizumi is no fool. You don't get to be prime minister of the world's second-biggest economy without having some smarts. Nor do you get an economics degree from Keio University without some brainpower. But Japan's prime minister appears to need refresher courses in a variety of areas, not least of which is basic language. There are at least two words of which Koizumi seems to have lost understanding: reshuffle and reform. Koizumi, in his own words, reshuffled his cabinet. The only problem was that he let the most useless members keep their jobs, with most of those fired be...
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