retiring high-ranking government officials taking a lucrative job in a private or semi-private corporation
command (from superior to inferior, government to private sector, etc.); order; imposition
descent from heaven
天下りの批判が続く。
Criticism of amakudari continues.
官僚の天下りを禁止する法案が出た。
A bill banning bureaucratic amakudari was introduced.
天下りは官民癒着の温床だと批判された。
Amakudari was criticized as a hotbed of public-private collusion.