Labor minister Chikara Sakaguchi indicated Tuesday the government plans to move up by a month when corporate employee pension funds start returning the portion of pension assets they manage on the government's behalf.
The new start would be in September, rather than October.
"It depends on whether we work hard to front-load (the period) by one month," said Sakaguchi, minister of health, labor and welfare. "We want to do it."
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