Lobbying doesn't even begin to describe the depth of corruption in Japan. Barriers between the state and industry are pretty thin at best. And this doesn't even get into the fact that Abe's party has long standing ties to organized crime itself.

The aftermath of Fukushima was a pretty clear demonstration of this, where Tepco and government officials teamed up with the yakuza to send their debtors, as well as rounded-up homeless people, to clean up contaminated sites:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/japan-e...