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Central Traffic Safety Policy Council Tuesday, March 14, 2006 JAPANESE A meeting of the Central Traffic Safety Policy Council was held at the Prime Minister's Official Residence. At the meeting, the "Eighth Fundamental Traffic Safety Program," the outline for comprehensive and long-term measures concerning traffic safety for the five-year period from FY2006 to FY2010, was decided. The basic principle of this outline is that as a premise for building a truly prosperous and vibrant society, it is vital to secure the safety and reassurance of the people. Recognizing that securing traffic safety is an important element of this premise, the outline ultimately aims for a society free of traffic accidents, based on the "people centered" concept of traffic safety. In concluding the meeting, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said, "While the number of lives lost to traffic accidents has been halved since its peak, I ask for your further efforts to create an even safer society."