Abstract
In August 2016 Kozo Yamamoto was appointed Minister in Charge of Administrative Reform and appointed the author （Miwa） as his aide (hosakan) . After a short preparation period, the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy determined “the Basic Policy for Statistics Reform” in December. The Council for Statistics Reform Promotion was then created with the “Construction of Systems to Implement Measures for the Promotion of Evidence-Based Policy Making (EBPM) ” as its first agenda. With the activation of this Council, the government’s efforts to promote EBPM began, and has continued at an unexpected pace. The Economics of EBPM (Hiroshi Ohashi ed.) was published in February 2020, as the result of more than two years of effort that began with a conference project soon after the activation of the Council. Articles, with paired comments, are substantively varied.
This article takes as its primary readers practitioners in charge of EBPM Promotion, including persons in charge of policy making for EBPM promotion. Policy decisions are determined in political process, and the present author has often taken part in that process. Based on that experience, he presents information necessary to understand and promote that process, to the extent possible without interfering with its completion.
