THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
May 1, 2020 at 15:39 JST
A woman residing in Nishimeya, Aomori Prefecture, receives 100,000 yen in cash hours after the supplementary budget passed the Diet on April 30. (Yoshinori Hayashi)
The centerpiece of the 25.691 trillion yen ($240 billion) supplementary budget that passed the Diet on April 30 is an emergency package to tide over every household during the coronavirus pandemic. [Read More]
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