Status quo proving hard to overcome.

Status quo proving hard to overcome By Mizuhiko Yamaguchi Yomiuri It took a full year for the Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to resign--albeit without an official announcement to the public. He instead chose not to participate in the upcoming Liberal Democratic Party presidential election. In addition, it took four years of lobbying for the government to yield to public pressure and open the floodgates at Isahaya Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture. If there is a lesson to be learned from these two incidents, it is that colossal effort and extraordinary courage is required to change something after it has been established, even if it was wrong from the beginning. These introductory paragraphs were written on March 5, when the House of Representatives rejected a no-confidence motion against the Mori …