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Japan's Takaichi Touts Consumption Tax Cut Plan

Tokyo, Oct. 7 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi touted her plan to cut the consumption tax on food and pay support payments to workers at a plenary meeting of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, on Wednesday. The combination of a consumption tax reduction and support payments is "the best in light of sufficiency and promptness" to ease the impac...

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