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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

Promotion of

We will launch a "¥1 trillion direct-payment system" to realise a 50% food self-sufficiency ratio in ten years time.

The Democratic Party of Japan will increase Japan's food self-sufficiency ratio, as well as supporting and nurturing motivated agricultural workers. An agricultural sector that provides safe food products and abundant green spaces is the cornerstone of a healthy and sustainable society. We will halt the current system of agricultural subsidies, and fixing our eyes firmly 50 or 100 years into the future, strive to preserve the local environment and establish sustainable agriculture, forestry and fishery industries.

We will revise the agricultural subsidy system, transforming it into a direct payment system, in order to realise a sustainable agricultural sector.
To assist company employees and retirees who are interested working in agriculture, we will ease, below a certain level, the conditions for obtaining agricultural land, and realise "the revitalisation of agriculture" and "support for a new life".
We will create "underwater forests of seaweed" that will act as spawning grounds for fish and shellfish, in order to restore the depressed self-sufficiency ratio for marine products.
We will unify the administration of food safety, make it compulsory for processed foods to display the country of origin and appoint international food inspectors.
We will cultivate "green dams", and replant 10 million hectares of forest over the next decade.

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