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Council for Designing 100-Year Life Society
December 19, 2017
Photograph of the Prime Minister making a statement (1)
Photograph of the Prime Minister making a statement (2)
On December 19, 2017, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held the 4th meeting of the Council for Designing 100-Year Life Society at the Prime Minister’s Office.
At the meeting, there was a discussion on the draft interim report.
Based on the discussion, the Prime Minister said,
“We are promoting revolutions in productivity and human resources development as two wheels of a cart in tackling the enormous challenge of a declining birthrate and aging population. To overcome this challenge, the Cabinet approved a new economic policy package on December 8.
The revolution in human resources development, the second chapter of this economic policy package, was formulated based on the discussions held in this Council. I would like to again express my thanks for the enthusiastic contributions by all the expert Council members. As mentioned earlier, this Council was launched in September. We have advanced actual budget measures and compiled a specific economic policy package, based on a very bold direction such that a permanent budget of 2 trillion yen will now be oriented to all generations by investing in human resources and our children’s future. Once again, I would like to thank you for your discussions. This was compiled in a short time because the election took place during the process. Truly, if we had not received a mandate by winning this election, we would not have been able to advance such major reforms. Fortunately, we received the people’s support in the election, and we immediately formulated this package. I would be pleased if you would now work on further advancing the specifics of what we can undertake at once.
Today various considerations were made, and while of course not all the exchanges were conclusively finished, the fundamental direction has been determined. In regard to the remaining deliberations, the importance truly lies in the details. I would like for the discussions to be continued.
The draft interim report shown today includes the proposals of expert Council members and relevant ministers for the economic policy package. We will conduct final revisions and compile the interim report.
As I mentioned before, there are still various issues remaining that should be discussed, so early in the new year I would like you to deepen the discussions on the important points for designing an appropriate socioeconomic system for building a 100-year life society. I would like all the expert Council members to continue to have lively discussions.”
At the meeting, there was a discussion on the draft interim report.
Based on the discussion, the Prime Minister said,
“We are promoting revolutions in productivity and human resources development as two wheels of a cart in tackling the enormous challenge of a declining birthrate and aging population. To overcome this challenge, the Cabinet approved a new economic policy package on December 8.
The revolution in human resources development, the second chapter of this economic policy package, was formulated based on the discussions held in this Council. I would like to again express my thanks for the enthusiastic contributions by all the expert Council members. As mentioned earlier, this Council was launched in September. We have advanced actual budget measures and compiled a specific economic policy package, based on a very bold direction such that a permanent budget of 2 trillion yen will now be oriented to all generations by investing in human resources and our children’s future. Once again, I would like to thank you for your discussions. This was compiled in a short time because the election took place during the process. Truly, if we had not received a mandate by winning this election, we would not have been able to advance such major reforms. Fortunately, we received the people’s support in the election, and we immediately formulated this package. I would be pleased if you would now work on further advancing the specifics of what we can undertake at once.
Today various considerations were made, and while of course not all the exchanges were conclusively finished, the fundamental direction has been determined. In regard to the remaining deliberations, the importance truly lies in the details. I would like for the discussions to be continued.
The draft interim report shown today includes the proposals of expert Council members and relevant ministers for the economic policy package. We will conduct final revisions and compile the interim report.
As I mentioned before, there are still various issues remaining that should be discussed, so early in the new year I would like you to deepen the discussions on the important points for designing an appropriate socioeconomic system for building a 100-year life society. I would like all the expert Council members to continue to have lively discussions.”
