| The Cabinet Headquarters for Administrative Reform, at its second meeting in the National Diet Building, adopted a Three-Year Plan for Regulatory Reform. At the close of the meeting Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori said, "In order to improve the infrastructure for Japan's sustained socioeconomic growth as we strive for the rebirth of Japan, we need to see the tumultuous changes in the conditions in and around Japan as opportunities and link them to new growth by undertaking structural reform. In this context, regulatory reform is a high priority. As well as addressing the economic field, we must promote broad-based reforms over the medium and long term, emphasizing reforms aimed at revitalizing health care, welfare, employment, labor, education, and other social systems, as well as reforms to cope with the information-technology revolution and environmental problems." He instructed the members of the Cabinet Headquarters to actively address regulatory reform, saying, "I ask you to do your best to promote implementation of the Three-Year Plan for Regulatory Reform."
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