Basic reform principles for Japan's civil service and special public corporations will be drafted by June, Ryutaro Hashimoto, minister in charge of administrative reforms, said Thursday.
Speaking at a gathering of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's administrative reform promotion panel, Hashimoto said it is vital for the state to breathe life into new government ministries and agencies that were created by the Cabinet reorganization earlier this month.
"We need to realize a small government so that it will help in efforts toward fiscal reconsolidation," Hashimoto said. Guidelines for the overhaul of the public-servant system and special public bodies would be drawn up by June, before the summer's House of Councilors election, he added.