REGULATORY

MHLW’s FY2023 Budget Totals 33.2 Trillion Yen

December 26, 2022
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s (MHLW) draft general-account budget for FY2023 beginning next April totaled 33,168.6 billion yen, up 1.6% from the previous year. The 33.2 trillion-yen sum does not include budgets sought by divisions to be transferred…

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