Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy
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I. Roles of the Council
i) In response to inquiries by the Prime Minister, carrying out surveys and discussions on important economic and fiscal policies (e.g. Basic Policies for Economic and Fiscal Management and Reform, Basic Principles of Budget Formulation).
ii) In compliance with inquiries by the Prime Minister and/or responsible ministers, examining and ensuring consistency among important economic policies.
iii) Advising the Prime Minister on the above issues.
II. Meetings
III. Members
| Chair | KISHIDA Fumio | Prime Minister |
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| Members | HAYASHI Yoshimasa | Chief Cabinet Secretary |
| SHINDOU Yoshitaka | Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy, Minister in charge of Economic Revitalization |
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| MATSUMOTO Takeaki | Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications | |
| SUZUKI Shunichi | Minister of Finance | |
| SAITOH Ken | Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry | |
| UEDA Kazuo | Governor of the Bank of Japan | |
| Experts(4) | TOKURA Masakazu | Chairman of the Board, SUMITOMO CHEMICAL Co., Ltd. |
| NAKAZORA Mana | Vice Chairperson Global Markets, Japan, BNP Paribas Securities (Japan) Limited. | |
| NIINAMI Takeshi | President & Chief Executive Officer, Member of the Board, Representative Director, Suntory Holdings Limited |
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| YANAGAWA Noriyuki | Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo |
IV. Archives(2001-2009)(Appears on Web Archiving Project(WARP)(The National Diet Library) home page.)
V. Related Documents
VI. Associated committees
Committee for Promoting the Integrated Economic and Fiscal Reforms
Roles
The committee promotes the following initiatives and reports to the CEFP:
i) Based on "The Economic and Fiscal Revitalization Action Program" (Decision by the CEFP on December 24, 2015), the committee promotes "Reform with Innovation"(i.e. "Industrialization in public-related services", "Incentive reforms" and "Innovation in public services"), manages the progress of policies and steadily implements the PDCA cycle every fiscal year during the planed period in cooperation with related central government offices and the budget authority. In addition, it reflects the results of the checks and assesses on the subsequent reform.
ii) The committee gives guidance and advise related central government offices and Cabinet Office on thorough and further "visualization"
iii) The committee implements the PDCA cycle, changing the budget in "wise spending" manner, quantitatively figuring out and analyzing the outcome of the reforms. The committee conducts an interim assessment of the Integrated Economic and Fiscal Reforms in FY2018.
Members
| TOKURA Masakazu | Chairman of the Board, SUMITOMO CHEMICAL Co., Ltd. | |
| NAKAZORA Mana | Vice Chairperson Global Markets, Japan, BNP Paribas Securities (Japan) Limited. | |
| Chair | NIINAMI Takeshi | President & Chief Executive Officer, Member of the Board, Representative Director, Suntory Holdings Limited |
| YANAGAWA Noriyuki | Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo | |
| ITO Yukiko | Professor, Department of Policy Studies, College of Policy Studies, Tsuda College | |
| OHASHI Hiroshi | Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo | |
| OHYA Takehiro | Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University | |
| GOTOH Reiko | Professor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University | |
| HATO Eiji | Professor, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo | |
| HIRANO Miku | Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Cinnamon AI | |
| HOSHI Takeo | Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo | |
| MATSUDA Shinya | Professor, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health |