The Cabinet has approved its annual economic policy guideline, which promotes the digitalization of society and the further adoption of telecommuting under the "new normal" being created by the coronavirus pandemic.
Increasing the government's effort to build "national resilience" to natural disasters and to minimize the damage to people's lives and livelihoods was also hastily included in the annual economic policy blueprint in light of the torrential rain that damaged Kyushu and other areas earlier this month.
But the economic guideline, announced Friday, failed to make any reference to specific goals for fiscal reconstruction, including the target of bringing Japan's primary balance — tax revenues minus expenses other than debt-servicing costs — into the black by fiscal 2025, which was stipulated in the 2018 and 2019 guidelines.