Finance Minister Koji Omi said Tuesday it will be difficult to balance the budget by 2011, but the government will continue to reduce spending.
“We won’t loosen our grip on fiscal reform” and will push for spending cuts in a budget proposal for the year starting in April 2008, Omi said. The Finance Ministry will release an outline of next year’s budget this week.
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