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10.19.2013

National Strategic Special Zones: Result of Focal 15 Items

=Advanced, ×=Not Advanced, =Partly Advanced

Menu of Regulatory Reform
Result
Memo
1.Medical Care



(1)Practice by Foreign Doctors
Paved the way for foreign patients
  ‘to Japanese patients’ left behind
(2)Regulation on Number of Beds

(3)Treatment not Covered by Public Insurance

(4)New Medical Schools

2.Employment
Specification of Working Condition, Terminable Contract, Working Hours
Achieved the original aim of ‘specification of working condition.’
’terminable contract’ to be programmed nationally in the next Diet
’working hours’ left behind
3.Education
(privately managed public schools)

4.City Planning



(1)floor-area-ratio

(2)area management

(3)residential apartments for accommodation

5.Agriculture

requiring further considerations

(1)Agricultural Committee
TBD
(2)credit insurance
(3)expansion of farmland use
(4)regulation on farmland ownership
TBD
6.Local Assembly
Eligibility for Election
×
requiring further considerations nationally
7.Historical Buildings



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