The ‘software’ lump sum grant for Okinawa Prefecture set at 21.6 billion yen with a 17.8 billion allotment added for municipalities. (29ja22)

Committee opened its online meeting on 28 January. The 2022 Propulsion Grant for Okinawa Promotion (software projects lump sum grant) has been set at 39.4 billion yen, 10.9 billion yen less than the previous year. The Prefecture and the municipalities have decided on how to share the money.


The Prefecture will get 21. 6 billion yen, down 9.9 billion from its previous allotment and the municipalities 17.8 billion, down 1.1 billion from previously. The software grant share ratio between the Prefecture and the Municipalities had been basically 5 to 3 (Prefecture’s 62.5% to municipalities’ 37.5%). However, because of the huge cuts to Okinawa related budgets, for the first time since its establishment, the ratio was changed to 11 to 9 (Prefecture’s 55% to municipalities’ 45%).


According to Okinawa Prefecture, on receiving the budget cuts, several municipalities requested that the rate be set at 1 to 1. However, with the Prefecture placing value on the broad range of business activities spanning the municipalities, the committee unanimously decided to accept the new ratio. Moreover, in light of the budget cuts, the committee decided to put on hold the special provision in effect since 2013 calling for an investigation of projects solicited by the municipalities.  

　

In the 2021 budget, the division of money between the Prefecture and the municipalities was 5 to 3. However, taking into account the requests of the municipalities, the Prefecture moved 3.6 billion yen from its account as an adjustment to the account for municipalities. As a result, the ratio of shares became 11 to 9. In 2022 also, the proposal was to take that ratio of shares into account.


After that meeting, the municipalities held their Okinawa Promotion Municipality Conference. The Conference decided on how to share the municipalities’ allotment of 17.8 billion yen among the local governments. Out of their 17.8 billion, they allocated 4.1 billion with 100 million to each municipality. They shared the remaining 13.7 billion in response to an index of economic strengths such  as population and area. The city of Naha  received the largest share with a total of 2.514 billion.


At the beginning of the Okinawa Promotion Conference, Governor Denny Tamaki noted, “In order to plan a more effective utilization of the Okinawa Promotion henceforth, we will consolidate our total efforts to achieve the maximum effect by strengthening the system for promotion as well as by striving to consolidate our choice of projects and administrative resources.”


Original Japanese article: Ryukyu Shimpo, published Saturday 29 January 2022 at 05:54．Byline: Masakazu (=正覚?) Umeda

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/76f09a6f5f3c985ff0e17ef04d9d01b158edb7ac


Translator’s note:

Denny in the News: news about Okinawan Governor Denny Tamaki.

Denny Tamaki is the governor of Okinawa Prefecture in Japan. Although Okinawa is important as an international tourist destination and a key element in strategic US Military Forces, its governor receives very little coverage in the Japanese press and almost none in the English language media. 

  1. This blog hopes to  translate one news article a day on the governor.  It is unsponsored and unauthorized. The translator simply hopes to improve his skills and perhaps give the governor an English speaking audience. 

  2. Any suggestion on improving the translation will be gratefully accepted. However, please leave political comments for another forum.

  3. Where they occur, words and phrases in Ryukyuan (the Okinawan language) are rendered in italics and translated in parentheses. Names  whose readings are uncertain are rendered as Name (=Kanji?) as in Nagayuki (=長行?). Any corrections in such instances would be gratefully appreciated.

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