Not only the disaster areas but also Japan as a whole need to make efforts to improve both physical and human infrastructures, in order to make the country more resistant to natural disasters. There are many kinds of potential demand, and in order to meet such demand, innovation again plays an important role. B.
Efforts toward sustaining fiscal balance  I have stressed the importance of addressing the challenge of raising the medium- to longterm growth potential of the economy, which is closely related to another challenge: efforts toward sustaining fiscal balance. As the aging of the population will advance further, pension payments and the costs of health and nursing care are projected to increase substantially.