Staff writer
With Diet approval Friday of special legislation to beef up Japan's industrial competitiveness, the government has taken only the first step toward restructuring the nation's supply-side economy.
Because supply-side reform is expected to unsettle the workforce as industries, with the help of preferential government programs, shift resources toward growth sectors, the government is faced with a heap of followup tasks, including creation of new industries to absorb workers squeezed out of unprofitable sectors.