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Japan to Create Social Inclusion Task Force |
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japantoday.com |
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Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
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Japan |
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Jan 18, 2011 |
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Prime Minister Naoto Kan plans to create a task force this month to work out a Japanese-version social inclusion strategy to help socially excluded people participate in society again, government sources said Wednesday.
The task force will launch a fact-finding survey in or after April and compile specific proposals in the summer so that specific social inclusion measures could be put into the budget for fiscal 2012 starting in April next year, they said.
In fiscal 2012, the task force will make a final survey report and put forward the social inclusion strategy, they said.
‘‘We will aim to bring about a society that is inclusive of every single person, in which no one is excluded from mutual support networks, not just in employment, but also in providing welfare for the handicapped and elderly,’’ Kan said in his policy speech last June.
The strategy is modeled after the European Union’s social inclusion policy to enable those at risk of poverty and social exclusion to obtain opportunities or means for full participation in society.
The task force will include Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Tetsuro Fukuyama and Makoto Yuasa, an adviser to the Cabinet Office who is also secretary general of the Anti-Poverty Network, a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization.
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