The fact that this chamber and the Bank were founded in the same year may not be a matter of coincidence, as these organizations respectively played crucial roles in helping with the initial footsteps for Kyoto toward becoming a modern city and Japan toward evolving into a modern nation. Kyoto is a city that enjoys more than 1,200 years of history.
During this phase, the countries that have room to intervene can play an important stabilizing role; those with a high public debt must prioritize a rebalancing of expenditure towards measures that are better able to support growth, such as public investment, and to reduce the tax burden on businesses and employment.