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Japanese Prime Minister's Press Conference: Announces Cabinet Reshuffle and Outlines Economic, Foreign, and Social Policy Directions
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- The Prime Minister announced three policy goals for this reshuffle in the economic, social, and foreign/security sectors, outlining specific measures for economic revitalization, addressing the declining birthrate, and strengthening the international order.
- In particular, the economic sector aims to escape deflation through measures such as providing support to citizens facing rising prices, increasing wages and investment, and accelerating neoliberal policies.
- In the social sector, he emphasized the need for radical measures to increase the birth rate to reverse the decline by 2030, as well as support for elderly individuals with dementia, and strengthening national healthcare initiatives to address common illnesses.
The Prime Minister outlined the future direction of policy operations through this cabinet reshuffle. In his opening remarks, the Prime Minister revealed the achievements so far and the key tasks in the three key policy areas of economy, society, and foreign affairs and security.
First, in the economic field, he said that measures would be taken to support people's livelihoods amid rising prices, as well as to address structural wage increases and investment expansion. He also said that he will accelerate the neo-capitalist policy to achieve sustained wage increases exceeding the inflation rate, attract private and public investments totaling 150 trillion yen in the future, and build an economic foundation through the fostering of AI and startups to escape deflation.
In the social sphere, he pointed out that the challenges include developing radical measures to rebound the birth rate by 2030, supporting elderly people with dementia due to the aging population, and strengthening responses to national diseases such as pollen allergies.
In the field of foreign affairs and security, he said that he will strengthen the free and open international order based on the rule of law through the G7, Quad, Japan-US-Korea, etc., and further strengthen cooperation with the United States, its ally, while also promoting cooperation with Korea, Australia, India, etc. He added that he will also focus on fundamentally strengthening defense capabilities, economic security, and fostering advanced technology.
Defining the cabinet system as "a cabinet that uses change as its strength," he entrusted capable ministers in various fields with the reform tasks of opening up a new era. Meanwhile, regarding the issue of the former Unification Church, he emphasized that legal procedures such as imposing fines are being carried out, and that strict measures will be taken before a final decision.
In the Q&A session that followed, the Prime Minister’s stance on various current issues was conveyed, including revising the Political Funds Control Act, his will to revise the Constitution, whether he will cooperate with the Democratic Party of Japan, the personnel standards for ministers related to the former Unification Church, and export regulations on treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
