The government should draw up, if necessary, an extra budget focused on information technology and new public projects later this year, Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said Wednesday.
A decision to go ahead with such a pump-priming budget can be made in September, when gross domestic product data for the April-June term will be released, Miyazawa said in an interview following his reappointment.
He pointed to mixed signals in the economy, such as sluggish personal consumption and an apparent recovery trend in the business sector.