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MOF Tells LDP Members Govt Can Address Inflation with Current Budget Policy
Senior finance ministry officials have told some members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) that the government can address changes in the economic and price trends with the current social security budget policy embraced in last year’s “honebuto” paper,…
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