Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unveiled on Friday strategies for economic growth, ranging from promoting exports of infrastructure systems and developing measures to help create startup ventures to easing tourist visa regulations to bring in more foreign visitors.
Abe discussed these goals and measures in a speech at a Tokyo hotel laying the groundwork for the Upper House election in July.
Among various promises, he pledged to double the number of full-time non-Japanese lecturers at eight national universities to 1,600 and create a fund to help more Japanese study overseas.