The list of former Prime Minister's Abe Shinzo's domestic achievements should include influence on social science research through the removal and rejection of applications to the Abe fellowship program administered by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership and the Social Science Research Council, the Arrington Affair. See https://www.aaup.org/JAF10/book-burning-japan

Bruce Henry Lambert asked: " Is the powerful civil servant class becoming more obedient to lawmakers, or increasingly catering to political interests?" The Arrington case as well as the research of Arelia George Mulgan on the subordination of the bureaucracy to the Prime Minister's Office suggest the answer is yes.