Expo crowds queue to visit the French pavilion.

In BhatBatheni, Kathmandu, people queue for kerosene.

And, if a debt crisis is near, exceptions will be found, waivers will be issued, and buyers for the additional debt will be lined up.

The legislative branch, for one, may have its own idea of the directions the revitalization process should take, while civic groups and private sector consumers of public goods line up behind alternative and conflicting agendas.

They also want to stop Abe from dismantling and privatizing one of their central fiefdoms, the Social Security Agency. In this struggle, the mandarins are aligning themselves with the DPJ, at least to the general public s eye, because it has proposed merging the Social Security Agency with the National Tax Agency, a move that would ensure government jobs for the former s employees.