The Defense Ministry requests more than ¥5.1 trillion for fiscal 2017 to deal with North Korea, China and terrorism that is putting ordinary Japanese at risk.
Fiscal 2015 budget requests from all ministries and agencies are likely to top ¥101 trillion, the highest ever, sources said. Growing social security expenses are responsible for swelling requests for the general account budget, which totaled ¥99.25 trillion for this fiscal year. The requests point to ...
Fiscal 2014 initial budget requests from all ministries and agencies are expected to exceed ¥100 trillion for the second straight year, sources say.
