① Realization of efficient and high-quality nation-oriented administration;

② Promotion of performance-centric administration; and

③ Thorough perfection of accountability to the nation.

At the same time, policy evaluations have been conducted for individual public-works projects, individual research and development issues, regulations and special taxation measures to suit policy characteristics. Policy reviews of nine themes were conducted in March 2012 and policy checkups were carried out with regard to 13 policy goals using 44 measure goals and 213 performance indices in September of the same year. In the light of the directions of policy improvement highlighted by these evaluations, policy assessments were conducted for 33 new measures in February 2013 to interchange FY2012 supplementary budget and FY2013 budget requests. $ ^{Note\ 1} $

## 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. Evaluation results, including cost-effectiveness back data on new adoption, reevaluation and post-evaluation, are compiled into project evaluation charts to help confirm their background, which are posted on the Internet or the like. Note 2

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism also conducts its own planning stage evaluation for new products under its direct supervision in preparation for their evaluation upon initial adoption.

## 3 Driving Administrative Management Open to the Nation and Interactive Administration

## (1) Land, Infrastructure, Transport Hotline Station

In driving the land, infrastructure, transport and tourism administration that has a close bearing on people’s lives, it is important to gain a broad insight into the views, requests and other voices of the people and deploy administrative measures that are directly linked to the people. To this end, the Land, Infrastructure, Transport Hotline Station is open, collecting about 1,000 views on the average.

## (2) Releasing information to consumers, etc

In addition to the traditional schemes of administrative guidance, the "Negative Information Search Page" is available from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Website, which contains a summary history of the administrative penalties imposed on the business operators in the past in connection with buildings, such as houses, and public transportation facilities, to ensure safety and security through proper selection by consumers and market supervision.

## (3) Making the process of social infrastructure development program formulation more transparent

Driving the implementation of a social infrastructure development plan calls for winning understanding and cooperation from local residents to ensure transparency and fairness from its stage of inception afterwards. Comprehensive studies have been made from various perspectives, such as social, economical and environmental, to encourage the participation of various entities, including local residents and also guidelines that set forth basic concepts of the reasonable formulation of plans are extensively used to add to further transparency.