Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday told his administration to draw up a second supplementary budget for fiscal 2018 to fund disaster prevention measures and bolster the agricultural sector.
The extra budget, which is expected to be several trillion yen in size, will also fund measures to shore up the economy after a contraction in the July-September quarter due to a powerful earthquake and typhoon.
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