Japan Traffic Safety White Paper: 1999 Report on Accidents and Policies

Heisei 11 (1999) edition of Japan's annual traffic safety white paper. The report details the state of traffic accidents in fiscal year 1998 (Heisei 10) and the status of safety measures, alongside plans for fiscal year 1999. It was authored by the Policy Coordination Officer for Cohesive Society Policy within the Cabinet Office.

Use Cases

• Analyze year-over-year trends in traffic accidents based on reported annual statistics.
• Study the implementation and planning of government safety measures based on the described policy reports.
• Benchmark historical Japanese road safety performance against other countries based on the official government data.

Strengths

• Official government publication from Japan's Cabinet Office, providing authoritative data.
• Report covers both the status of accidents and the status and future plans for safety policies.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

内閣府 (Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)

Collection Method

Government report compilation.

Time Range

Fiscal year 1998 (Heisei 10) status and fiscal year 1999 (Heisei 11) plans.

Freshness

Last updated 2023-06-07 21:26:24.240221; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Japan