TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed his government on Wednesday to set aside around 3.5 trillion yen ($26 billion) in the annual budget for child care, Economy Minister Shigeyuki Goto said, which was slightly more than previously estimated.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed his government on Wednesday to set aside around 3.5 trillion yen ($26 billion) in the annual budget for child care, Economy Minister Shigeyuki Goto said. | 01:18am
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has vowed to double such spending over the next three years to arrest the country s dwindling birth rate, even if that means further aggravating the government s fiscal position
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed his government on Wednesday to set aside around 3.5 trillion yen ($26 billion) in the annual budget for child care, Economy Minister Shigeyuki Goto said, which was slightly more than previously estimated.
TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed his government on Wednesday (May 31) to set aside around 3.5 trillion yen (S$34 billion) in the annual budget for child care, Economy Minister Shigeyuki Goto said. Kishida has vowed to double childcare spending over the next three years and the government has previously estimated that it needed to raise around 3.