Ministry of Efficiency Dismantled to Create "Agency of Waste": Only Waste and Overtime Pay Are Growing
The government announced the sudden dismantling of the Ministry of Efficiency, once the symbol of administrative reform, and the establishment of a new "Agency of Waste" on its former site. Staff print expense slips by the kilogram starting in the morning and spend the night burning through leftover budgets by turning them into confetti. A finance bureaucrat boasted, "The only things growing in Japan are waste and my overtime pay."