・Almost all contracts for private companies are voluntary contracts, and since government office contracts are almost competitive bidding, government offices use the term voluntary contract in the sense that they go out of their way to distinguish them from competitive bidding (p38)
・According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the current stock amount of rice has only decreased by 300,000 to 500,000 tons compared to previous years, and it is a simple problem known from the beginning just that it would have been good to take it out of stockpiled rice with 1 million tons in stock (p48)
・In Yokosuka City, which is an electoral district for Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Koizumi, there is a rice wholesaling and retail company called Murase Holdings. It is the top 5 rice wholesaler in Japan, close to the Koizumi family, and the rice milling facility in Iruma City, Saitama Prefecture has a processing capacity of 200 tons per day (p51)
・In the 2024 pension system reform, there was a “bottom increase plan” where welfare pension reserves were used for basic pensions (national pensions), but by temporarily shelving them and having the Constitutional Democratic Party bring them back, the cabinet no confidence plan against the Ishiwari Cabinet was avoided. Also, with regard to the (p55) bottom-up plan, which was able to leave the buds of the Grand Coalition, which at one point seemed to be broken down, waited for financial verification in 2029 and was effectively postponed (p56) consumption tax will become 15% due to the title of social security purpose tax, and this is the future of Japan anticipated until 2029 financial verification (p50)
・The biggest reason why the Constitutional Democratic Party is unable to issue a plan of no confidence in the cabinet is that if the cabinet is dissolved during tariff negotiations with the United States, a political vacuum will be created, and only the Constitutional Democratic Party, which has 50 or more seats, can submit a plan of no confidence (p57)
・The privatization of the postal service was watered down in a review of privatization due to the intervention of the Ministry of Finance and the Democratic Party administration, and eventually reverted back to actual “nationalization” (p78)
・When Mr. Takahashi performed a CF analysis of the special accounts of each ministry and agency, reserves of about 40 trillion yen were found) (p100) and finally acknowledged the withdrawal of reserves of 10 trillion yen in the special account for financial investment and financing funds. As a result, until the birth of the Democratic Party government, buried funds came in handy as trump cards for financial resources (p101)
・Revenue offices have been established in countries around the world, and taxes and insurance premiums are collected collectively; in the case of Japan, taxes are collected collectively by the National Tax Service, and social insurance premiums are covered by the Japan Pension Service and the National Health Insurance Association (p117) The reason why the National Tax Agency is not established is that personnel rights of the National Tax Agency are lost and tax collection rights are taken away, making it difficult to secure a destination for the country (p168), there are investments and loans from special corporations, but these are the main destinations of the Ministry of Finance (p178)