Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara on Friday said the new government blueprint for economic management and structural reform places a burden on local governments.
The blueprint is designed to "thrust what the state cannot do upon localities," Ishihara told a news conference after the government adopted a plan calling for the transfer of 3 trillion yen in tax revenue sources from the state to local governments in the two years beginning April 1, 2005.
In exchange for the proposed transfer of tax revenue sources, the plan asks local governments to work out ways to reform the nation's subsidy system to enable the central government to slash subsidies.
The government has shown "no direction whatsoever on reform of the local allocation tax," Ishihara said.