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Japan must deploy fiscal stimulus without hesitation in response to the economic crisis and prioritise efforts to shore up the economy over fixing its tattered public finances, the government's draft guidelines for the fiscal 2022 budget showed.
The budget guidelines, seen by Reuters, dropped a reference to the need for "reviewing spending without sanctuary", which had been inserted in recent years as a pledge to stick to fiscal discipline.
"We will deploy necessary fiscal spending without hesitation in response to crisis and take all possible measures" to defeat deflation, the draft read. "We must not put the order wrong. We
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