投稿の詳細: 無策の策？　No action policy?

日本の「行政」（特に大蔵省や通産省=当時）
は無策の策だと批判されていた時期が
あった様に思う。本来「政府」となる
所なのだが、「行政」即ち実質省庁（官僚）
となっているところが、政治を動かして
いる実態を言い当てていて皮肉な
批判でもあった。

何もやらない、放っておく、そして
時が解決してくれるのをひたすら待つ、
少々批判されてもしばらく我慢すれば
忘れられる。そうして、いつの間にか
問題はうやむやになる。問題は慎重に
して表立てない。

こういう政策が批判されたのが、
かつての貿易摩擦の時だったり、
バブル経済破綻の時だったりしたような
記憶がある。

そんな表現を思い起こさせたのが
「県内での大型風力発電、知事『不可能』
の見解」という新聞記事だった。

峰の原での風力発電建設計画については、
須坂市は態度をはっきりさせていなかった。
議会で市長は『県のアセス審査結果が出たら、
市長が決定をする。』というような発言を
していたらしい。その後審査結果が
出たのかどうか、出たらどんな内容だった
のかは知らない。

ただ、「県は計画地を「影響想定マップ」で
「慎重に検討すべき」とか、更には
「特に慎重に検討すべき」地域に指定した。」
というような報道はあったが。それでも
今日に至るまで、須坂市の態度は
明らかではない。

と、姿勢がはっきりしないうちに
知事のコメントが発表された。
これじゃ仕方ないね、となるのかな？

最近話題の「かんぽの宿」、ある大臣が
俺は何も聞いてない、なんかおかしくないか
と発言するまで、何も表ざたにならずに
静かに進行していた計画だ。
彼が「無策の策」を弄すれば、何も
問題にならずに、国が株主の会社が
国民の財産を不当な（売却を白紙に戻して
総裁が謝罪したのだから不当だったのだろう）
廉価（もしくは方法）で売却されていたわけだ。

一見「無策の策」は高等戦術のように見える
場合もあるがその実、方針を決めたり
解決策を探す努力を放棄してしまうこと
だし、また不公正を見逃すこともあるわけだから、
トンでもなく無責任な戦術でもあるわけだ。

無策なのは、結局自分達はどこへ行くのか
というベクトルが無いから無策にならざるを
得ないのだろうな。コンパスの針が
磁界を失ってくるくる回っているような。

I remember Japanese administraion
(especially the Ministry of Finance and
the Ministry of Trade and Industry at the
time has been criticized for its no action policy,
from time to time. The word administration
was used instead of government which seemed
to indicate ministries namely bureaucrats.
The expression seemed cynical to me because
it suggest that the policy makers were
acturally bureaucrats but not the lawmakers.

Doing nothing, leaving untouched and
waiting for the time which would solve
the problem seemed a common tactics among
the policy makers. They may be criticized
for a while but, if they could be patient
for a while, the problem would go away and
would be forgotten. Any potential problem
should be deliberately put aside and should
not be apparant to anybody. That is the
key to the make things through.

I think this policy was criticized
very badly at the time of trade frictions
and of burst of bubble economy.
I was reminded of such an expression when
I read about the news that the negative
comment of the governor of Nagano prefecture
about the large size wind farm in our
prefecture.

Regarding the wind farm project at Minenohara
Kogen heights in Suzaka city, city government
did not say yes or no clearly. The mayor was
said to mention that he would make a decision once
the environmental assesment by Nagano prefecture
would be released. I don't know if there has been the
release of such assessment or not, and the contents
if there was any.

Later on Nagano prefecture categorized that area
as 'to be studied with care' and later
'to be studied with special care.' Even so,
Suzaka city did show any clear direction but
kept saying that they were waiting for the
answers to the questionaires from the project
company.

While clear direction was not shown by the
municipal government, the governor's commet
was released. What will happen then ?
Do they that they cannot help but following the
prefectural directions...?

Resently, the bulk sale of the inns owned
by Japan Post has been the focus of arguments
at the parliament. That has become to be known
by every one only after one minister mentioned
about the issue. If he applied No Action Policy,
the assets of the company of which shareholder is
100% the Ministry of Interior, that means the
tax payers, were sold in an unfair way or illegally.
As the president of the Japan Post applogized and
withdrew from the sales plan, it must have been
an unappropriate deal.

No Action Policy may look as if it was a
discrete policy but on the contrary it has
an aspect of irresponsibility because it refuses
the efforts of making important decisions or
of searching for the solutions, or possibly
of fiding unfairness.

I think, when we don't have a vector which directs
ourselves, we have to choose Non Action. It is
as if the indicator of a compass kept
turning around in the magnetic field when it loses
magetic.