The Japanese government will spend 1 trillion yen, $8.3 billion, to stimulate economic growth in the remaining fiscal year. The stimulus package is much smaller than expected, and illustrates the difficulties the government is having in steering between urgent demands that it get the runaway budget deficit under control and that it act to keep the economy from sliding further into recession.

The new stimulus package will be only half the size of last year's supplementary budget and another trillion yen will be used to retire old debts. The government is also considering a second

Some topics in this essay:
Summary Japanese, Brief Analysis, Japan Japanese, Finance Ministry, Unfortunately Japanese, Article Japanese, Times October, stimulus package, japanese economy, japanese government, trillion yen,