Tokyo Gubernatorial Election 2020: Candidate Profile for Kazue Ushio

This is the 17th post introducing candidates in the Tokyo governor race.

Check the other candidate profiles using these links: Koike; Utsunomiya; Ono; Yamamoto; Sakurai; Komiyama; Takemoto; Nishimoto; Sekiguchi; Oshikoshi; Horiemon New Party; Goto; Sawa; Ichikawa; Ishii; Nagasawa.

The goal of these profiles is to get readers to know all the candidates on one website. I want to help people find information with minimal effort.

This post will focus on Kazue Ushio and his policies.

Bio

2020 Policies

Olympic Games

• Dismantle organizations formed for the Olympics
• Redistribute the budget to athletes 

Economy

• Reduce the number of airlines (merge) & increase once the economy recovers
  • Only provide the bare minimum of government funding
• Implement a reward-based basic income using the Individual Number (My Number Card)

Social Welfare

• Implement the prefectural system (should drive rent down)
• Implement a good deeds system (reward good actions)
• Allow short time, low burden labor
• Promote work-sharing (duties/pay divided between 2 people who work different times)
• Develop a system where healthcare workers can take time off (increase # of workers by including trainees/interns)
• Reduce the burden on healthcare workers by streamlining the consultation-to-testing process
  • Have online consultations, information on waiting times, vehicle services, and stocked supplies 
• Promote the use of online conference/meetings
• Invest in culture + research

Education

• Implement both online learning + school attendance in small numbers (ex. Once a week)
  • Provide older tablets or cheap ones for free to families that can’t afford their own electronic devices 
• No school lunches—provide food tickets that can be used at nearby restaurants
• Going to school in groups will be generally forbidden

Administrative Reform

• Set politicians’ salary based on their accomplishments (basic rate: divide 0.0001% of tax revenue by all politicians)
  • 3-year term; fired if caught sleeping or reading books during sessions 3 times 

First Impressions

• Signature policies are implementing basic income, the good deed system, and the prefectural system
• Emphasizes the need to treat everyone equally, while also paying adequate amounts to exceptional talent (ex. researchers)
• Not clear, but probably wants to cancel the Olympic games