TOKYO: A majority of Japanese firms want top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga to become the next prime minister as many see no need to change the status quo on stimulus policy at least until the coronavirus crisis ends, a Reuters poll found.
Highlighting worry about snowballing public debt, however, fiscal reform topped firms' wish list for the incoming government, the poll found, underlining the difficulty to contain the virus and revive the economy while putting the fiscal house in order.
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