Spending on science and technology increased from 12.6 trillion yen in 1995 to 17.6 trillion for the first plan, 21.1 trillion for the second plan, and 21 trillion for the third plan.
The first plan for a freeway along the length of the route was halted due to World War II, and the second plan for a freeway in the 1960s was cancelled due to the disruption it was projected to cause to businesses and residents along its path.
The third plan expressed what should be called the social turn of science and technology policy in Japan; the fourth Plan was supposed to reach a step further by including a Japanese version of a fourth helix.
Critics suggested that the third Plan spread the available resources too thinly by attempting to address all problems raised in the first and second Plans, in the absence of additional Federal Government funding or specific guidance on actionable and measurable outcomes [ 13].
And unlike the first plan, the new buildings would be tax exempt.
The obvious strategy is first to fund the plan with the better employer match-up to the percentage being matched-and then to fund the second plan.
And another when the second plan failed.
And then another when the first plan failed.
The [OGP] Action Plan was developed with active participation from civil society groups and made strong efforts to learn from and build upon the actions of the first plan.
Two environmental groups sued the Park Service, and a succession of courts rejected the first plan as well as a revised plan in 2005.
