THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 16, 2020 at 15:09 JST
Komeito chief Natsuo Yamaguchi heads for an April 15 meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Takeshi Iwashita)
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe instructed the Finance Ministry to rewrite the proposed supplementary budget to include 100,000-yen ($926.67) payments to all individuals to help them cope with the coronavirus outbreak, sources said April 16. [Read More]
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