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Frustration is gathering among reformers in both main parties, and has found expression in a new cross-party pressure group that includes over 100 Diet politicians and many local reformers, such as Mr Kitagawa. It had its first get-together on March 3rd. Called Sentaku (an untranslatable word which basically means both choice and washing things clean), it wants to decentralise, limit the power of the central bureaucracy and—a novel thought—encourage parties to compete in elections on the basis of articulate manifestos.