The central government must exert control over the regions to push through regulatory reforms needed for economic revival, said the head of a council on special economic zones.
“Things will turn really bad when you just rely on local governments,” Tatsuo Hatta, 72, said in a recent interview in Tokyo. Special zones give the government the authority to act in areas where local authorities have discretion and “tell them what to do,” he said.
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