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Headquarters to Promote Civil Service Reform


Tuesday, July 15, 2008



Photograph of the Headquarters to Promote Civil Service Reform


Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda held the 1st meeting of the Headquarters to Promote Civil Service Reform at the Prime Minister's Office.

In his opening address, Prime Minister Fukuda said, "Civil service reform is an important, urgent task to restore the people's trust in the administration. I am determined to wholeheartedly advance the reform to ensure that each and every civil servant maintains high morals, enhances their capacities, and focuses on their work with pride, in the service of the entire people of Japan. For their parts, I ask the Ministers to make efforts to realize the reform based on the standpoint of the people, while reconfirming the importance of the reform of the civil service system."

Afterwards, Mr. Yoshimi Watanabe, Minister of State for Civil Service Reform, gave explanations on the procedures and systems to promote the reform, and on other matters, including the plan to develop legislative grounds for establishing a Cabinet Personnel Affairs Bureau, which will be in charge of personnel management of all the national civil servants across the Government, within a year or so, and to submit the necessary bills to next year's regular Diet session.