Public Safety Commission, the Defense Agency and the Financial Services Agency have been re-positioned as independent organs within the Office. Also, the Defense Facilities Administration Agency will remain in the Defense Agency. Other Reinforcement of Political Leadership by the Introduction of the State Secretary Realignment and Rationalization of the Policy Councils Restructuring of National Administrative Organs The administrative reform has reorganized the Ministries according to their main "purposes" in a way that they can perform as synthetic and coherent a function as possible. In order to prevent sectionalism, which has been pointed out for its detrimental effects and respond to issues flexibly and cohesively, systems of policy coordination have been constructed so that related administrative organs, in light of their purposes, hold deliberations on their inter-Ministerial measures. A system of policy evaluation has been introduced for the government itself to evaluate the effects of its policies before and after implementation, and to utilize the result of evaluation in the planning and drafting of policies. More Transparent Administration Introduction of the new system of Independent Administrative Institutions is one of the core items of the administrative reform. Drastic Streamlining of the Central Government Streamlining of the Administration Rationalization of Undertakings by Abolishment/ Privatization, Promotion of Outsourcing, Deregulation and the Delegation to Local Governments and Reform of Government Enterprises Alignment of Organizations by Reduction in number of Ministers' Secretariats, Bureaus, and Divisions, Review of Affiliated Facilities and Other Organs and Realignment and Rationalization of Local Branch Offices Reduction in the Number of Personnel External links Prime Minister's Official website Ministry of Foreign Affair's Official website Politics of Post-war Japan Government of Japan Heisei period Central Government Reform Japanese governmental reforms