To whom it may concern

Apr 22, 2011

National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

President Takashi Shiraishi

Proposals on Disaster Recovery Policy for Great East Japan Earthquake

(First Stage Proposal)

  The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) is a graduate school aimed at producing leaders of democratic governance. In accordance with our initial spirit of establishing an education and research institute for policy studies, teaching staff volunteers led by the director of our Policy Research Center, Professor Shigeru Morichi, compiled and announced on April 22 our first set of urgent proposals on a framework for earthquake recovery, in consideration of the fact that it is a mission of GRIPS to concentrate our accumulated human resources, networks and research achievements and make a contribution to recovery efforts in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake.   Based on the first set of proposals, we hereby present our second set, which we compiled by digging into more specific ways of reforming and establishing institutions.   We would be very happy if these proposals are of help to the efforts that the national and municipal governments are currently making as measures to deal with various issues in the course of earthquake recovery.       See here for the Urgent Proposal s (First Stage) on Framework for Great East Japan Earthquake Recovery