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| We will sweep away ¥10 trillion in wasteful spending of tax money over three years, reducing the number of Diet members in the House of Representatives by 80, abolishing separate pensions for Diet members, and reducing the personnel costs for civil servants employed by central government by 20%. |
We will withdraw Self Defense Forces from Iraq by December 2005 and embark on reconstruction assistance appropriate to Japan. |
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| We will abolish the Social Insurance Agency and unify the pension system. |
We will launch a "¥1 trillion direct-payment system" to realise a 50% food self-sufficiency ratio in ten years time. |
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| We will embark on a reform of the state school system and create a monthly child allowance of ¥16,000 per child. |
We will eradicate bureaucratic collusion, and realise the abolition of the public highway corporations and the elimination of motorway tolls. |
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| In order to draw out local inventiveness, we will convert ¥18 trillion of tied grants into financial resources for the regions. |
We will drastically reduce the size of postal savings and insurance, and allow funds to flow from the public to the private sector. We will maintain a universal postal service network across the nation. |
