
Business Aug 31, 2017
Japan's budget requests reach ¥101 trillion for fiscal 2018, making sustainability a challenge
General-account budget requests by government ministries and agencies totaled around ¥101 trillion ($913 billion) for fiscal 2018 amid ballooning social security expenses and record-high defense spending, government officials said Thursday. The budgetary requests submitted to the Finance Ministry topped the ¥100 trillion mark for the ...