Agenda for the Evolution of the Growth Strategy (January 20th, 2014, Industrial Competitiveness Council)
 Since the Cabinet’s adoption of the Japan Revitalization Strategy last June, working groups of the Industrial Competitiveness Council, cooperating with relevant panels ,have intensively discussed various issues to make the strategy an “evolving growth strategy.” The government will make further discussion according to this agenda andreflect it in the revision of the “growth strategy,” which is expected in the middle of this year.
 To raise the potential growth rate and to bring the country’s economy to a sustainable growth path, agenda are provided from the following three viewpoints.

I. Creating a world-class environment where workers and enterprises can fulfill their potential.
1. Working-Style reforms including promotion of active
social participation by women Realizing Japan where women can play active roles.
－Enhancing after-school childcare program for elementary
school students to enable their mothers to work, tax andsocial security systems neutral to working styles, establishinga new panel for the promotion of the policy, etc.

2. Inside-globalization of Japanese Society

3. Acceleration of innovation, venture and IT
and improving business environments

 Developing an environment for accepting foreigners,
revising the industrial training and technical internshipprogram Rebuilding the research and development
environment to create innovations－Creating a control tower in the government for accepting
foreign human resources, identifying areas in which foreign
human resources should be utilized and the number offoreigners to be accepted, institutional reforms for developing
a living environment for foreigners, etc.

 Building a society where flexible and diversifiedworking styles are available－Introducing an employment system based on concrete job
description, appropriate easing of working-hour regulations(realizing creative working styles that cannot be measured bytime), etc.

 Building “a society where peoples can develop theirskills outside enterprises and move to appropriatejobs”

 Promoting foreign direct investment－ Utilizing high-level panels including ministerial meetings todiscuss requests from global business executives, etc.

 Making Japan an international financial center Enhancing the functions of airports in metropolitanareas

II. Developing industries that have not been regarded as growth sectors into new growth engines
1. Developing medical and nursing care services into a growth
sector and Securing sustainability of social security system

2. Reforms to turn agriculture into a growth
sector Reform of health-care and social welfare corporation system topromote integrated medical and nursing care services－Creating a “nonprofit holding company system,” reforming
medical corporation regulations, etc.

 Utilizing knowhow of private companies,
promoting farmers’ entry into businesses
such as food-processing and retailing (the“6th industry”)

 Insurance system reforms to fulfill needs of patients andenhance the competitiveness of medical services－Reviewing the treatment of patient-selected extra medical services in
the public health-care insurance, a system for continuing uninsured useof less-cost-efficient medical treatment techniques, introducing a costbenefit analysis for insurance coverage assessment, etc.

 Invigorating health-care businesses outside public insurance
coverage such as disease prevention and health promotion
services Utilizing ICTs in medical and nursing care services

 Promoting business ventures to create
innovations
 Establishing rules to promote broader use ofIT
 A tax system that vitalizes the private sector
 Improving business environments throughstabilizing and reducing the cost of energy
supplyIII. Spreading fruits of economic growth
to rural regions and SMEs, creating
new sustainable regional communities

 Promoting export of agriculture-forestryfisheries and food products

 Forming vigorous, sustainable regional
communities and developing a “granddesign” of regional community to realize
long-term development
 Promoting regional growth strategies Vitalizing small and medium-sizedenterprises

 Other measures to promote further entryof various motivated entities intoagriculture－Reviewing agricultural committees,
agricultural corporations and agricultural
cooperatives (cooperation with theRegulatory Reform Council), etc.

 Increasing the number of foreigners visitingJapan Developing environments and arrangementsfor promoting PPP (public-privatepartnership)/PFI (private finance initiative)－Promoting cooperation between SMEs utilizing
regional resources, activating structural SME
reforms, etc.