Aso says Prime Minister Abe has officially ordered the compiling of another supplementary budget

There is a special blue pill for Japanese budgets which enable the government to do them again and again and again …. unless I have lost count its been one budget and two extra ones. But, in al seriousness, the extra ones are often in relation to funding natural disaster recovery programs.

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  • Abe told cabinet to take steps to ease pain from sales tax hike

(The sales tax hike is due in octo October 2019)