The Cabinet on Thursday approved the final version of an austere 77.67 trillion yen general account budget for fiscal 1998, up only 0.4 percent from the initial budget for the current fiscal year.
The general expenditures portion of the budget — spending related to policy implementation — was reduced by 1.3 percent to 44.54 trillion yen, marking the first decrease in 11 years.
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