The fiscal 2009 budget appears likely to clear the Diet by the March 31 end of this fiscal year, after the Democratic Party of Japan basically decided Tuesday to allow the ruling camp to pass it in the Lower House on Friday.
But the record ¥88.5 trillion budget might be delayed until next week if other opposition parties strongly protest it.
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