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Japan Diet Enacts Record Budget for FY2023
Japan’s Diet on March 28 enacted a record general-account budget of 114.38 trillion yen for FY2023 starting in April this year, including social security spending of nearly 37 trillion yen, also an all-time high. At 114,381.2 billion yen, the total…
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