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Manifesto
The DPJ's Eight Pledges to Transform Japan

Sweep Away Wasteful Spending! No Tax Increases Targeting Salaried Workers Realisation of an
Realisation of a Safe and Secure Society without Inequalities, and of Everyday Happiness Promotion of
From Concrete to People, People, People Toward a Fair and Transparent Market Economy
Decentralisation Reform - Entrusting Regional Affairs to the Regions - Real Postal Reform - From the Public to the Private Sector

From Concrete to People, People, People

We will embark on a reform of the state school system and create a monthly child allowance of ¥16,000 per child.

The Democratic Party of Japan will free Japan from public works-driven administration, and shift resources from concrete to human beings. In order to accomplish this, it is important to sweep away wasteful spending of tax money, invest in developing human resources and prepare for the future. In terms of education, we will nurture people with all-round abilities (physical strength, intelligence, decision-making ability) and a clear career vision, and proceed to foster balanced human resources. We will aim to create a human resource nation, ensuring that people have training and educational opportunities at every stage of life.

We will provide a monthly child allowance of ¥16,000. We will enhance the paediatric medical care system by establishing a nationwide network of more than 290 core hospitals and local centres, and reducing to 10% the proportion of medical expenses applying to children until the end of compulsory education. We will support the nurturing of the next generation by adding a ¥200,000 childbirth subsidy to the current lump sum payment.
We will embark on state education reform and school reform to increase all-round 'lifeskills'. We will shift control of school administration to municipalities and schools themselves, and make it possible to publicly advertise school principal posts. We will greatly increase the quality and number of teaching staff, and promote the move to Saturday schools, community schools and schools administered by local authorities, through the participation of parents, guardians and local volunteers.
We will ensure that all those who wish to do so receive scholarships, in order to reduce the burden of school fees on households. We will also raise the upper limit of scholarships.
Through unifying the kindergarten and nursery school systems and enhancing nursery care, we will enable people to carry out work and child-rearing at the same time.
We will support the self-sufficiency and job-seeking efforts of NEETs through work experience programs and the like.
We will enhance skills development training in order to assist in the reemployment of the unemployed and those self-employed whose businesses have failed. Furthermore, we will provide a living allowance during training. We will utilise private sector vitality by amending the tax system to revitalise the regions and increase opportunities for reemployment and continued employment, so that those who have reached retirement age can start a new life in the regions.
We will engage in the establishment of a "Child and Family Ministry" that will destroy bureaucratic sectionalism.

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