Key Policies: Integrated Growth, Resilience, and Social Security

Overall, the policies combine the promotion of the Japan Growth Strategy with the strengthening of growth foundations, the development of regional economies, and the enhancement and full participation of human resources.

At the same time, they position diplomacy, national security and information capabilities, economic security, disaster prevention, risk reduction and national resilience, earthquake recovery, and public safety as major policy areas.

Measures involving businesses and regions include investment in strategic fields, technology development, startup support, creating conditions for wage increases, tourism, transportation, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, culture and the arts, and sports.

The stated direction is to advance disaster prevention and risk reduction, earthquake recovery, crime prevention, victim support, responses to environmental risks, climate change adaptation measures, and the securing of safe and secure livelihoods.

As an implementation approach, connect budgetary and fiscal management based on the public-private investment roadmap. Promote a new technology-oriented nation that wins through technology and also wins in business, AX and DX, space, oceans and geospatial information, and resource and energy security and GX.

In regional policy, address the Regional Future Strategy, sustainable national land development, the elimination of transportation deserts, becoming a tourism-oriented nation, structural transformation of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, and food security. The scope also includes human resource development, enabling people to exercise their abilities, and a society that leaves no one behind.

In disaster prevention, advance Reiwa-era national resilience measures and the development of secondary capitals and related facilities, and respond to recovery and restoration from the Great East Japan Earthquake, the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company, and the Noto Peninsula Earthquake. It also covers a strong economy, fiscal sustainability, social security for all generations, measures to counter the declining birthrate, children and young people, public education, research, social infrastructure, and the foundations of local government administration and finance.