Reuters reporting via unnamed sources

  • Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to delay the timing for balancing a primary budget from the current fiscal 2020 to later in the decade
  • Abe will unveil the decision on Monday at a news conference
  • Also expected to announce a snap election

I posted on the snap election first thing Monday, ICYMI: Japan press: "Abe set to call October election"

Abe plans to push back the timing to sometime in 2020s

  • Prioritising spending on education, innovation on human resources and productivity, the sources said