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This booklet is a summary of the Annual Report of Transport Economy for
fiscal 1982 (the 1982 Transport White Paper) published by the Ministry of Transport.
The White Paper has been issued by the Ministry since 1964 for the purpose of
providing the people with basic information about transport activities in Japan
each year.
The most important task facing the nation's transport administration concerns
the reconstruction of the Japanese National Railways (hereafter the JNR). The
financial situation of the JNR has reached an unprecedented state of crisis,
and its reconstruction is one of the most urgent tasks in view of the necessity
to build an efficient national transport system and to promote the nation's
administrative and fiscal reform plans. With the Japanese economy going international
and the nations deepening their interdependent relationships, it has become
increasingly necessary for Japan to formulate and pursue an adequate transport
policy from an international point of view.
In this White Paper, Part I outlines the operations of land, sea and air
transport in fiscal 1981, and Part II deals with the question of how to reconstruct
the JNR and international tasks facing Japan under the title, "Tasks Facing
Transport."
It is our sincere wish that this booklet will be useful for all interested
in Japanese transport activities..
Takashi Tsunekawa
Director-General
Department of Research and Data Processing
Secretariat to the Minister
Ministry of Transport, Japan
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