By NAOKI TSUZAKA/ Staff Writer
December 21, 2020 at 19:00 JST
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, left, and Taro Aso, who is deputy prime minister as well as finance minister, before a Cabinet meeting on Dec. 21 (Kotaro Ebara)
Japan's Cabinet on Dec. 21 approved a record 106,609.7 billion yen ($1,031 billion) general account draft budget for fiscal 2021, issuing debts to cover about 40 percent of the total due to an anticipated tax revenue shortfall from the novel coronavirus pandemic. [Read More]
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