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06 年考研英语模拟试题 4 （三） TEXT 3 THE New Year in Japan is always a time for house cleaning. This year, however, the government is giving itself a special dusting down. Japans civil service is enduring its most thorough reform since the Americans occupied the country. Beneath a cloud of paper in Kasumigaseki, Tokyos bureaucratic district, whole ministries are vanishing, merging with each other, or at the very least getting new names. By January 6th, when the removal vans leave, nearly $400m will have been spent shifting 33,000 bureaucrats and their files about the place. The result, say officials, wil