Japanese agency boycotts government meeting on public service reform.

Text of report in English by Japan's largest news agency Kyodo

Tokyo, Jan. 30 Kyodo - Japan's National Personnel Authority refused to send a representative to Friday's government meeting on reforms of the country's national public service system due to its opposition to the Cabinet's plan to integrate some functions of the organization into a new body called the Cabinet personnel and administrative management bureau, Cabinet minister Akira Amari said.

The government called off the scheduled meeting of the forum partly due to the situation, said Amari, state minister for regulatory, administrative and civil service reform.

The government forum, …