PRINCIPAL POLICIES OF THE TOKYO METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT
Tokyo Vision 2020 Driving change in Japan/Showing our best to the world
2012 Action Program for
Tokyo Vision 2020
The 2012 Action Program lays out three-year
goals, total program budget, and annual plans for
2012 to 2014. Along with steadily promoting the
measures put forth in Tokyo’s 10-Year Plan, novel
and pioneering efforts as well as initiatives that
will be accelerated within the next three years are
actively adopted and implemented as focused, priority measures. In addition, measures are taken
to address new challenges in order to quickly and
appropriately respond to changes in the social environment of Tokyo following the formulation of
the 2011 Action Program. The program contains 22
measures and 370 projects (of which 84 are new,
and 87 revised). The total budget for the program is
approx. 2.2 trillion yen, and the program budget for
fiscal 2012 is approx. 750 billion yen.
Key Initiatives in the 2012 Action Program
1. Achieve a sophisticated disaster-resistant city and
demonstrate Tokyo’s safety to the world
- Complete seismic assessments of buildings along
special emergency transport roads (2013)
- Complete seismic retrofitting of elementary and
middle schools (2013)
- Complete nearly all surveys of main city-planned
roads in districts with close-set wooden houses
(development areas)
- Raise community disaster mitigation capabilities
through activities such as disaster preparedness
education and model projects for disaster-management neighborhood units
- Designate some 8,000 districts as areas in danger
of landslide disaster
2. Create a low carbon society with a highly efficient,
independent and distributed energy system
- Start construction of a high efficiency, natural
gas-fired power plant with 1-million kW capacity
- Expand the introduction of independent and
distributed power sources by utilizing urban
development schemes, etc.
- Promote the installation of solar power systems
in homes
- Implement model projects for the realization of a
smart city
- Have large-scale establishments achieve their
mandatory reduction of total CO2 emissions (6
to 8 percent)
- Have 27,000 next-generation vehicles on the
streets
3. Restore Tokyo to a beautiful city surrounded by
water and greenery
- Create 300ha of new greenery, and increase
roadside trees to an accumulative total of
950,000 trees
- Implement initiatives to preserve existing
greenery such as forested areas and agricultural
fields
- Implement strategies to preserve areas with a
biodiversity that befits Tokyo
- Create bustling waterside spaces through development of the Sumidagawa Renaissance
- Remove utility poles along metropolitan roads
in the central core area to raise the rate of
underground cables to 86 percent
4. Connect land, air, and sea to raise Tokyo’s
international competitiveness
- Approx. 80 percent completion of the three loop
roads
- Approx. 91 percent completion of ring roads in
the ward area; approx. 81 percent completion of
the Tama North-South road
- Completion of the C1 and C2 foreign cargo
container terminal berths at the Outer Central
Breakwater reclamation site
- Increase annual landing and departing slots at
Haneda Airport to 447,000 and Narita Airport
to 300,000
- Promote integrated infrastructure and urban
development around the stations of Tokyo,
Shibuya, and Shinagawa
- Promote the development of the waterfront area
into a MICE hub and open the new wholesale
market in Toyosu (2014)
5. Put Tokyo on a new track to growth by raising
industrial power and the allure of the city
- Support the commercialization of about 15 products that have growth potential and contribute to
the resolution of urban challenges
- Use the Special Comprehensive Zone System
to attract over 500 foreign companies to Tokyo
(2016)
- Ensure the steady increase of foreign travelers to
Tokyo to surpass the level before the Great East
Japan Earthquake
6. Build and show the world an urban model for a
society with a low birthrate and aging population
- Increase the capacity of child daycare facilities to
accommodate 24,000 more children
- Build approx. 6,000 units of senior care residences (Tokyo Model 1)
- Establish Tokyo’s unique senior job center
- Secure spaces for approx. 7,000 disabled people
at group homes, etc.
- Increase NICU (neonatal intensive care units) to
320 beds
- Newly establish disaster medical care coordinators (2012)
7. Raise globally competent individuals by creating a
society where anyone can strive for high goals
- Bolster education in science and mathematics
through the initiatives of schools designated as
science frontiers
- Establish courses in metropolitan high schools to
nurture the leaders of the next generation, and
support overseas studies and training
- Accept about 140 students from Asian countries
to the doctorate course at the Tokyo Metropolitan
University (2008 – 2014)
8. Create a society where everyone can enjoy sports
and provide children with dreams
- Bid for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic
Games
- Cultivate momentum for the Tokyo Sports
Festival 2013 (2012 – 2013)
- Have over 60 percent of the adult population
participate in sports at least once a week (2016)
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