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Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said the government would prepare minutes of the headquarters' meetings based on memos. The government also should thoroughly investigate why the minutes were not kept.

Equally serious is that minutes may not have been kept for meetings of the government's emergency disaster countermeasures headquarters for the Great East Japan Earthquake and meetings on electricity supply and demand.

The failure to keep the minutes of important meetings is a problem that stems from the nature of the DPJ-led government, specifically its misguided "lawmaker-led politics" principle and the view that bureaucrats are inherently evil.

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