Literary aspirations of government committees.

[elwen]

For my Law and Society in Japan class, we're reading part of the Recommendations of the Justice System Reform Council For a Justice System to Support Japan in the 21st Century, and I was struck by this paragraph:

When likened to the human body, if the political branches constitute the heart and arteries, the judicial branch shall be said to be the veins. The series of reforms mentioned above, such as political reform and administrative reform, are, so to speak, an effort to restore and strengthen the functions to make blood flow swiftly by removing extraneous crudescence in the heart and arteries. According to this metaphor, justice reform shall be considered to be aiming at harmonizing the body and improving its health by expanding and strengthening the scale and function of the justice system as part of the what the "shape of our country" should be in the 21st century, with fundamental reflection on whether or not the existing veins were excessively small.

So since I have no veins (to the consternation of any doctor who has ever tried to draw blood from me or insert an IV), I resemble the Japan of the past?

Somehow I feel like Japan is the only place you would find such an expanded metaphor in a committee report, even a mostly propagandist one.