“The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in Everyday Life” refers to “people's daily lives”, which carries the message that the MIC is “a government agency with the support of the people's lives” and also in charge of a wide range of duties directly related to the people's lives.

The MIC is the ministry responsible for the administrative functions related to the foundations of people's lives, with jurisdiction over various systems related to the basic structures of the nation. It covers a wide array of roles from the improvement of administrative management, local government administration and finance, elections, fire and disaster prevention, information and communications, to postal administration, as well as the basic systems supporting the economic and social activities of the citizens.
Under the severe domestic and international circumstances surrounding Japan today, there is a strong necessity to proceed with the social and economic system reformation, as well as to build and maintain a new foundation for Japan's development in the 21st century. To this end, based on the appropriate division of the roles among the national governments, the local governments, and the private sectors, the MIC will promote its major initiatives focusing on the following areas :

• Administrative Reform
• The disclosure of administrative information
• Promoting Decentralization Reform
• Enhancing and securing the local tax revenue sources
• Regional Revitalization
• Ensuring citizen safety
• Increasing the diplomatic presence of ICT industry policies for international competitiveness
• Broadcasting policies
• The steady progress of privatizing the postal system