Japan’s Noda Repeats Cuts Must Go Together With Tax Increase
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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda reiterated yesterday the need to trim the scale of government to win public support for doubling the nation’s 5 percent consumption tax.
“This is the first step to a politics considerate of future generations, from one valid only for the present,” Noda said in an interview on Nippon Television last night. He also pledged support for more reconstruction efforts in areas hit by last year’s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis.