Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers questions during an upper house budget committee session at parliament in Tokyo on March 27, 2020. - AFP
TOKYO (Xinhua): The Japanese government on Monday (April 28) submitted a reworked supplementary budget to parliament to finance a number of emergency measures to help mitigate the overall economic blow from the coronavirus pandemic.
"The virus infections have been exerting an enormous impact on the domestic and overseas economies, and the extremely severe situation is expected to continue until we can see signs of the outbreak coming to an end," Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso said in the lower house, calling for the budget's speedy approval.
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