The Democratic Party of Japan, assuming it wins the Aug. 30 election, wants to establish a new policymaking bureau at its first Cabinet meeting, possibly in mid-September, to let a DPJ-led government swiftly begin translating its campaign pledges into action, party sources said Wednesday.
Via the bureau, the DPJ-led government would immediately revise the supplementary budget for the current fiscal year and compile a new budget for the next fiscal year to put into action policies proposed in the party's campaign platform, the sources said.
To ensure the bureaucracy is hobbled so lawmakers can engage in unified policymaking, the DPJ would have a senior Cabinet member serve as state minister in charge of the new bureau as well as being the party's policy chief.
Acting DPJ leader Naoto Kan has said the party would cancel and recompile the ¥4.36 trillion portion of the supplementary budget that is to be disbursed to 46 funds.
A controversial ¥11.7 billion project to build a state-run animation center would be canceled, and any funds made available through the closure would be used to restore single-mother allowances.