Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday instructed ministers to front-load spending earmarked in the fiscal 2016 budget in the period to September.
Abe cited growing uncertainties in the world economy, but some analysts see the move as a bid to buoy the economy prior to this summer’s Upper House election.
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