Improve career guidance services for female students, facilitate the employment of highly-educated young women, and strengthen competency development for women employees

Enable more women to enter highly specialized professions

Make full use of women personnel currently out of the workforce

Build an infrastructure for the development of women to raise the female labor force participation rate

Increase youth employment and support job creation efforts

Expand the employment of senior and middle-aged individuals and improve their employability

Strengthen the vocational competency of the low-income class and increase theiremployment and improve the rehabilitation ability of the disabled

Build an employment-supporting infrastructure intended toensure access for the youth and unemployed to systematic vocational guidance and provide them with comprehensive employment assistance services

Innovate employment practices and eliminate discrimination

Build a voluntary service infrastructure to utilize human resources in diverse fields

Build a cooperation network through a range of programs in education, culture, welfare, and environment and the promotion of voluntary services

Provide education programs for international understanding and support for the competency development of young people

Launch the Human Resources Development Forum

Increase the scope of student loan programs for university students

Improve equity by narrowing the educational gap within and among regions

Increase educational support for under-achieving or ill-adapted students and educationally marginalized groups

Develop plans for Human Resources Development that respondsto low birth rates