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| Summary of the Public Hearings Released |
| The Council for Relocation of the Diet
and Other Organizations has held nine public hearings at nine places
(Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo, Fukuoka, Sendai, Hiroshima, Sapporo, Takamatsu
and Kanazawa) from January through June 1999 to listen to opinions
of a wide range of citizens to contribute to building up a national
consensus as well as to reflect those opinions in future deliberations. The public hearings were conducted by allowing persons recruited and selected to announce their opinions. The Council members then presented their thoughts based on the opinions announced and free fill-in sheets submitted by the participants. Total numbers of participants and opinion announcers are as shown in the following table. |
| Included in the opinions given were approving
opinions, such as "Can be defined as the starting point of reform"
and "Can become an impact for reforming of the concentration-in-Tokyo
type system", cautious opinions such as "To be early yet
because of low national interests" and "New expenditures
are not possible under current financial situation", and opinions
from new viewpoints such as "Places for discussions should be
provided because many people misunderstand that the relocation means
relocating all of Tokyo as it is" and "The project should
be left to the younger-generation who participated in volunteer activities
during earthquake disasters." |
| The summary of proceedings in the public hearings and the details of the summary described above are being provided on the Homepage on the Internet (refer to the end of this leaflet). |