The Diet has enacted an extra budget worth ¥622.5 billion for fiscal 2016 through March to provide disaster relief and increase defense spending. The third supplementary budget for the current fiscal year includes ¥195.5 billion for areas hit by powerful typhoons and earthquakes in 2016 ...
The House of Representatives on Friday approved another supplementary budget for fiscal 2016 ending March that will provide ¥622.5 billion ($5.4 billion) for disaster relief and defense projects. The third supplementary budget for fiscal 2016 includes ¥195.5 billion for areas like Hokkaido and Tohoku that ...
The Diet has approved a ¥4.11 trillion supplementary budget to stimulate an economy dampened by sluggish growth amid weak consumer demand and business investment. The second supplementary budget for the fiscal year through March was approved Tuesday by the Upper House after clearing the Lower ...
The Cabinet approved Wednesday a draft second extra budget for fiscal 2016 to stimulate the flagging economy, bringing total public outlays for the year through March to over ¥100 trillion. The extra budget reflects Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to lift the world's third-biggest economy ...
The government plans to set its second supplementary budget for fiscal 2016 at ¥4.114 trillion on a general-account basis, informed sources said. The extra budget will finance a ¥28.1-trillion stimulus package compiled earlier this month. Including an extra budget for a special account for reconstruction after ...
The government will spend hundreds of billions of yen on anti-terrorism and safety measures as part of an extra stimulus budget in the wake of the attack by Islamist militants in Bangladesh that killed seven Japanese, government sources said. The seven development-aid workers were killed ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday instructed his Cabinet to compile an extra budget for fiscal 2015 to bolster welfare services and improve the competitiveness of the farm sector. The supplementary budget for fiscal 2015 ending March 31 is likely to be worth more than ...
The government is likely to compile an extra budget worth around ¥3.5 trillion ($28.5 billion) at the end of this year to help farmers boost their global competitiveness and finance social security measures, sources said Saturday. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will instruct ministries to compile ...
Economic data released Friday signaled that the economy is still in the doldrums following the first stage of the doubling of the consumption tax on April 1, raising doubts about whether the Abe administration can complete the hike to 10 percent as planned. Expectations are ...
The Abe administration will compile another extra budget to mitigate the economic impact of the October 29015 tax hike, Finance Minister Taro Aso indicated on Friday. "It is necessary to prepare to craft a supplementary budget" this fiscal year, Aso said while expressing his eagerness ...
While saying it is best if such a move is not made, Finance Minister Taro Aso refused to rule out the possibility an extra budget will be needed again next year to support the economy. "My honest feeling is that it would be best if ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet on Thursday approved a ¥5.5 trillion supplementary budget for fiscal 2013 to fund a stimulus package designed to minimize the negative impact of next spring's consumption tax hike. Vowing to achieve fiscal rehabilitation, the government will not issue additional bonds, ...
