Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi hopes to realize a primary budget balance in the early 2010s and create more than 5 million jobs, according to his long-awaited policy package released Monday.
In the one-page policy leaflet, Koizumi says he wants to attain a primary budget balance -- a condition in which expenditures excluding debt-servicing costs are fully covered by tax revenues -- and clear the budget deficit so future generation will not have to bear the burden of debt repayment.
Koizumi called for the same target in his policy speech at the start of the ordinary Diet session in January.
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