Main Points of Shinzo Abe Growth Plan

The following is the gist of a draft of the economic growth strategy, a key pillar of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic policies, unveiled Wednesday.

The government will:

• Take the lead in increasing total business investment by 10 percent over three years to around 70 trillion yen.
• Aim to boost per-capita gross national income by more than 1.5 million yen in 10 years.
• Allow the online sale of most over-the-counter drugs while ensuring consumer safety.
• Set up special economic zones to bolster investment and attract businesses from overseas.
• Create a new system permitting foreign doctors to practice medicine in the special zones.
• Increase electricity-related investment to 30 trillion yen over the next decade.
• Triple Japan’s infrastructure-related exports to 30 trillion yen and double the scale of the nation’s crop and food exports to 1 trillion by 2020.

via Mainichi

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