The Cabinet Office would then be able manage policy co-ordination on issues that concerned two or more ministries more effectively.
The administrative reform reorganised the Ministries according to their main "purposes" in a way that they could 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.
[1] These reforms enabled these IAIs to operate national museums and research institutes.
The number of national civil servants were to be reduced by 25% over the decade as well as a general reduction of government organs.