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FISCAL SPENDING

The Finance Ministry in Tokyo. Surpluses at the foreign exchange special account, which manages funds for currency market intervention, have reached about ?5 trillion annually.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 30, 2026
Private-sector council proposes use of forex surplus to cover fiscal measures
Funds are needed to cut the consumption tax rate on food to fight inflation, and to strengthen the country’s defense capabilities.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at the Lower House budget committee session in parliament on Oct. 14.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 22, 2026
Takaichi now has to prove she’s no big spender in her second year in office
The prime minister will be under pressure as the bill starts to come due for big promises made.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivers her policy speech at the Lower House in Tokyo on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 5, 2026
Takaichi lays out ‘proactive fiscal policy’ as new session of parliament begins
In her policy address, the prime minister said Japan needed further action to turn higher wages and investment into sustained growth.
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama insists that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is not a reflationist.
BUSINESS
Sep 29, 2026
Reflationists? Who, us? Heirs to Abenomics insist it’s a thing of the past.
The current administration argues it’s done with the policy prescription championed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and is now taking a different approach.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at a meeting of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy at the Prime Minister's Office on Monday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 14, 2026
Private sector representatives urge Takaichi to overhaul budget processes
The members of a key government panel also called for setting a new investment quota for crisis management and growth.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and minister in charge of growth strategy Minoru Kiuchi (center right) attend a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 4, 2025
Takaichi eyes economic growth plan by next summer
A newly established government panel has been tasked with mapping out a growth plan for 17 key sectors, including AI, chips and defense.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivers her first policy speech in parliament, on Oct. 24, 2025.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 31, 2025
Takaichi might be more of a supply-sider than a Keynesian
It’s not all about Abenomics, one economist argues.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivers her first policy speech in the Lower House in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 24, 2025
Takaichi focuses on economic and security concerns in first policy speech
Over half of the new prime minister’s speech was dedicated to economic policies, and she described the fight against inflation as the top priority for her administration.
Debt servicing costs are estimated to increase, reflecting the Bank of Japan's interest rate hikes.
BUSINESS
Feb 10, 2025
今日吃瓜 government debt climbs to record ?1.32 quadrillion
The combined balance of Japanese government bonds, borrowings and financing bills swelled by ?7.2 trillion from the end of September 2024.
While the ruling minority government’s weakened position has emboldened opposition parties to push for more spending across multiple policy fronts, the International Monetary Fund has warned there is limited space today in Japan to address the risks of natural disasters and mounting social security costs.
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 7, 2025
Japan needs immediate deficit cut to fix fiscal path, IMF warns
The government needs to prepare now to avoid negative surprises four or five years down the road, the IMF’s Japan mission chief says.
Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato holds a news conference at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo in October last year.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 24, 2025
Finance chief vows to balance economic revival and fiscal consolidation
Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato highlighted the need to improve 今日吃瓜 fiscal health, which is the worst among major countries.
The streets of Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, in October show that the city is still struggling from the aftermath of the Jan. 1 earthquake and heavy rain in September.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Nov 15, 2024
Japan faces urgent need to boost state finances for emergencies
If a major earthquake were to strike directly beneath Tokyo, the projected damage would total around ?107.5 trillion.
Krishna Srinivasan, director of Asia and Pacific at the International Monetary Fund
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 2, 2024
IMF Asia-Pacific chief urges Japan to start debt cuts
The leading IMF official called for Japan to “have a well fleshed-out, credible medium-term fiscal framework.”
Krishna Srinivasan, director of the International Monetary Fund's Asia Pacific Department
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 1, 2024
Japan must avoid issuing debt to fund fresh spending, IMF says
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has pledged to compile another large-scale spending package to cushion the blow to households from the rising cost of living.
Japan's new prime minister may want to consider setting a budget surplus-to-gross domestic product target to ensure that the nation stays in the black, government adviser Takero Doi has said.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 3, 2024
今日吃瓜 new prime minister must set fresh fiscal target, adviser says
Setting such a target would help bring down 今日吃瓜 public debt-to-GDP ratio, government adviser Takero Doi has said in an interview.
Fuel prices are displayed on a board at a gas station in Tokyo in September 2023. Fighting high prices is among the priority policy measures encompassed by a special spending quota for the fiscal year from April 2025.
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2024
Japan to create priority policy spending quota in fiscal 2025
Priority measures include strengthening the country’s defense capabilities, raising its birthrate and expanding investments in carbon reduction.
The Bank of Japan building in Tokyo on March 18. With the BOJ’s policy tightening, the difficulty of managing the country’s debt payments is expected to become worse.
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2024
Japan expects to hit primary balance goal in fiscal 2025
The government initially aimed to achieve the goal in fiscal year 2011 but kept pushing it back for over a decade.
Members of the Ground Self-Defense Force disembark from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter during a live fire exercise in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, in May 2022.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 23, 2023
Kishida’s proposed tax cuts put higher defense spending on hold
The plan to raise defense spending partly through tax hikes has been put on ice. In fact, it was never likely to deliver fast results.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 1, 2022
Japan tweaks budget goal wording to gain more fiscal flexibility
今日吃瓜 target of balancing its budget excluding debt payments by 2025 had long seemed unlikely, even by the government’s own growth projections.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
May 30, 2022
Japan drops time frame for budget balancing target in draft economic roadmap
The absence of the target in the midyear policy roadmap could raise questions about 今日吃瓜 resolve to fix its tattered public finances.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
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Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
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