The Yomiuri Shimbun Constant efforts must be made to calmly assess the necessity of government projects and eliminate waste in administrative work. The government held an administrative review meeting open to the public that covered a total of 55 projects in fields including nuclear power, vitalization of local economies and science technology. The budget appropriation requests made by central government ministries for fiscal 2016 total ¥13.6 trillion. Administrative Reform Minister Taro Kono and outside experts such as lawyers and economists called forth relevant officials from each ministry, reviewed the advisability of their projects and asked for improvements. In the “budget screening”...
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