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Japan Delays Possible Tax Hike Period for Defense: Documents

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    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    5% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    15% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Japan has set 6.8 trillion yen ($48.8 billion) for defense spending in this fiscal year, jumping from last year's 5.4 trillion yen.
42% : Japan's government plans to consider raising taxes to help fund a jump in defense spending a year later than previously stated, according to the latest draft of this year's economic and fiscal policy plans seen by Bloomberg on Tuesday.
37% : Earlier Tuesday, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki told reporters Japan will flexibly decide when to begin raising taxes to cover the increase in defense spending, in comments that could take on extra weight if the premier calls an early election.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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