Major policies of the Kishida Cabinet 04/

People feeling safe and well-assured in their daily lives

Our mission is to protect the lives and assets of our citizens from weather disasters such as torrential rains that have become increasingly intense and frequent in recent years, imminent large-scale earthquakes, aging infrastructure, and other such risks and reduce to the greatest possible extent the number of people impacted by disasters. We will continually and steadily work to prevent and reduce disasters and enhance national resilience over the medium to long term.
Also, without the reconstruction of the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, there can be no revival of Japan. With this strong conviction, we will continue to do everything in our power while staying attuned to the voices of the people in the communities affected.
Moreover, we will make our utmost efforts to ensure that our citizens can lead prosperous lives while enjoying peace of mind, including by the Government preparing for infectious disease disasters and ensuring good public safety.

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Promoting disaster prevention and reduction and enhanced national resilience

Responding to national crises, including natural disasters of increasing intensity and frequency and aging infrastructure, are a matter of great importance that cannot be postponed.

Disaster prevention and reduction and enhanced national resilience Open

We will promote our Five-year Accelerated Measures Package for preventing and reducing disasters and enhancing national resilience, which is 15 trillion yen in scale, step by step until 2025. Alongside that, based on the new Basic Plan for Enhancing National Resilience, we will continually and steadily strengthen our measures for preventing and reducing disasters and enhancing national resilience over the medium to long term, including by promoting efforts well-integrating hard and soft elements.

Responding to torrential rain disasters Open

In order to respond to torrential rain disasters, beginning in May 2023, we launched efforts to announce meteorological information on significant heavy rain as much as approximately 30 minutes earlier than in the past. In June 2022 we also began to call for evacuations from roughly half a day in advance, and from now, we will work to narrow down the areas that are targeted. In the future, we will continue to improve weather information for disaster prevention by enhancing our meteorological observations and developing our forecasting technologies.
Also, in light of the effects of climate change, we will promote river basin management in which all stakeholders, including the national, prefectural, and local governments, local companies, and residents work in cooperation, including disaster preparedness measures such as developing embankments and retarding basins and taking measures to prevent internal flooding, discharging water from dams in advance, and coordinating with city planning, including land use regulations. We will protect the lives of residents through measures integrating both hard and soft elements.

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Accelerating recovery and reconstruction from natural disasters

Without the reconstruction of Tohoku, there will be no revival of Japan. We will continue to make our utmost efforts towards reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake while staying attentive to the voices of local residents.

Reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake

Without the reconstruction of Tohoku, there will be no revival of Japan. We will continue to make every possible effort towards reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake while considering local residents’ views and sensitivities. In Fukushima, which is working towards reconstruction from the nuclear disaster, we are moving forward in a safe and steady manner in decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company and in rehabilitating the environment. We are also taking every precaution in our responses so as to keep in check to the greatest possible degree unfounded rumors resulting from the discharge of ALPS-treated water into the ocean.
Also, regarding the difficult-to-return-to zones with evacuation orders still in effect, evacuation orders were lifted in the Specified Reconstruction and Revitalization Bases in the village of Katsurao and the towns of Okuma and Futaba in 2022, and in the Specified Reconstruction and Revitalization Bases in the towns of Namie and Tomioka and the village of Iitate in 2023. We will push forward with necessary measures so that residents intending to return are able to do so, even an areas outside of these Specified Bases.
In addition, we will work to advance the efforts of the Fukushima Institute for Research, Education and Innovation (F-REI), established in April 2023, which aims to become a world-class “center of excellence for creative restoration” that will serve as a dream and hope for realizing the reconstruction of Fukushima and the other parts of the Tohoku region. F-REI will also aim to raise Japan’s industrial competitiveness to the highest level in the world and contribute to economic growth as well as the improvement of people’s lives.

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Ensuring people feel safe and at ease in their daily lives

The Government’s greatest duty is to ensure good public order and fully defend citizens’ daily lives, in which they feel safe and well at ease. In countering infectious diseases, the Government will take all possible preparations and make all-out efforts to ensure that the citizens can lead prosperous lives with peace of mind.

Measures to combat robberies committed as “dark” part-time jobs and “special fraud” Open

There have been robberies committed as “dark” part-time jobs and cases of “special fraud,” with the perpetrators recruited on social media. A plan for emergency measures against robbery and special fraud cases involving the recruitment of perpetrators on social media was set forth at the March 2023 Ministerial Meeting Concerning Measures against Crime, and we are making our utmost efforts to promote various measures to counter these crimes.

Measures to prepare for the next infectious disease crisis Open

In accordance with COVID-19 being reclassified as a Class V infectious disease under the Infectious Diseases Control Law, we will continue to transition our various policies and measures, including medical systems and public assistance, and promote basic infection control measures. We will take necessary measures that include ensuring that a system is in place to assess multilayered epidemic situations and advancing investigations and research into post-infection symptoms (what are called disease after-effects).
We have been providing the elderly and other vulnerable people with COVID-19 vaccinations since May 2023, and from autumn of 2023 we will provide everyone with this opportunity to get vaccinated. We will continue to evaluate vaccine efficacy and safety while also conducting investigations and research that are helpful in assessing the actual state of affairs regarding vaccine side effects.
In order to take all possible preparations in response to the next infectious disease crisis, we will establish the Cabinet Agency for Infectious Disease Crisis Management in autumn of 2023. We will strengthen our "control tower" function within infectious disease crisis management and conduct a review of the Government’s action plan, based on an inspection of responses to COVID-19 thus far.

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