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Japan will avoid over-reliance on debt for extra budget, finance minister says
Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said on Friday the government will seek to avoid overly relying on new debt issuance if it were to compile an extra budget. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Monday she had asked her cabinet to consider compiling a supplementary budget to fund steps to cushion the economic blow from a spike in costs brought by the Iran war [...]