Top business leaders want Takashi Fukaya, new minister for international trade and industry, to take further measures to assist small and midsize firms that are struggling amid the stagnant economy, officials of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) said Thursday.
The leaders were attending an informal meeting Thursday morning at the Keidanren building in Tokyo.
Kosaku Inaba, chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, expressed his hope that the new Cabinet will act to help those firms through a supplementary budget and law revisions.