Godzilla has returned in Shin Godzilla, a.k.a. Godzilla Resurgence, and this time, according to a review in Japan News, he has an unexpected ally: an incompetent and sclerotic Japanese government. “The film portrays the widely known inability of political leaders to decide on anything, always taking a wait-and-see attitude. The long-established tripartite policy-making process involving politicians, so-called experts and the Prime Minister’s Office becomes totally disoriented. In the film, the ‘experts’ in particular are portrayed as useless, only spouting off-point comments.” The China Morning Post earlier likewise observed that the film makes fun of government bureaucratic sclerosis in Japan. “Within its opening moments, Shin Godzilla uses a sudden attack on Tokyo by a marauding sea monster to evoke the devastating impact of 2011’s Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The film then takes aim at the bureaucratic junkyard of ageing, out-of-touch politicians desperate to pass the buck and avoid controversy.”