It found that economic elites and narrow interest groups were very influential, while the views of ordinary citizens and mass-based interest groups had virtually no impact.

结果显示，经济精英阶层和狭隘利益集团在这方面影响非常大，而普通公众和群众基础广泛的利益集团的观念则几乎无影响力可言。

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But it also means that narrow interest groups hold the balance of power.

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These do not add up to an ideological revolution so much as a big shift in power away from narrow, outdated interest-groups and towards the interests of the majority of Japanese.

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For starters, eliminating anything from the Code has become an exercise in futility in light of the army of special interest groups and professional lobbyists who fight on behalf of even the most narrow, industry-specific provisions contained in the law.

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