Determined to get the economy off the ropes, Prime Minister Taro Aso has ordered Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano to put together a stimulus package that would see actual spending in excess of ¥10 trillion, equivalent to more than 2 percent of the nation's gross domestic product, Yosano said Monday.
Japan's GDP is worth about ¥540 trillion.
It would be the biggest such shot in the arm the country has ever seen and would surpass the ¥7.6 trillion earmarked for economic stimulus steps in 1998.