## 2 Implementation of Project Evaluations

A fully integrated scheme of evaluating individual public-works projects is built in place to enhance the efficiency and transparency of their implementation. Under this scheme, new public-works projects are evaluated upon initial adoption and then reevaluated and post-evaluated upon completion. Project appraisal charts organized to present a background of the evaluations of public-works projects, including supporting data relevant to their cost effective analyses upon initial adoption, reevaluation and post-evaluation upon completion and posted on the Internet and elsewhere.

Further, the MLIT conducts planning-phase evaluations on public-works projects implemented under its direct control as its own approach in the preliminary phase of new project evaluation upon initial adoption.

## 3 Driving Administrative Management Open to the Public, and Interactive Administration

## (1) MLIT Hotline Station

In driving land, infrastructure, transport and tourism administration that has a very close bearing on people’s living, it would be essential to gain a broad insight into people’s views, requests and so on and deploy administrative actions directly related to the people. To this end, the MLIT has opened the MLIT Hotline Station to receive about 1,100 views, etc. on the monthly average.

### (2) Keeping consumers, etc. informed

The MLIT has opened the “Negative Information Search Site” at its website to provide a summary listing of the records of contractors, etc. relating to buildings, such as housing, and public transportation facilities, including administrative dispositions imposed on them, to ensure safety and security through proper selection by consumers, etc. and supervision by markets, as well as by administration as in the past.

## (3) Making the planning process in the development of social infrastructures more transparent

In driving the development of social infrastructures, it is important to ensure the transparency and fairness of the planning process and win understanding and cooperation from the local residents, etc. The MLIT is working to make the planning process more transparent by using guidelines that stipulate present key conceptual approaches to formulating plans efficiently with socioeconomic, environmental and all other relevant perspectives taken into consideration while encouraging the participation of various entities, including local residents, in the process.

## Approaches to Hosting Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games

At the September 7, 2013 plenary meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Tokyo was chosen to host the 2020 32nd Olympic Games and 16th Paralympic Games. The state inaugurated a ministerial conference on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games on April 22, 2014 to help expedite the preparatory process for the Games.

The MLIT launched the MLIT Prepartory Headquarters for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games headed by the MLIT Minister on April 18, 2014 to render all-out assistance. It will take whatsoever responses necessary to get the Games running smoothly, including assuring safety and keeping lodgings and transportation comfortable. It will also move ahead with necessary approaches to realize the future evisions of a Tokyo and Japan defined for “Grand Design of National Spatial Development towards 2050” and after by taking the year 2020 as a milestone, instead of viewing it as a goal. Further, the MLIT is keen to lure foreign visitors into every little locality of the land of Japan to help make for its buoyancy as we conduct the Games not only in Tokyo but nationwide.

More specifically, the MLIT will partner with the Tokyo Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo and other stakeholders concerned to condition the environment to host foreign visitors, by developing access roads to the Games sites and Olympic Village, filling the demand for transportation perfectly at the Tokyo