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Japan PM sticks to script on sales tax plans after deadly quakes

Published Mon, Apr 18, 2016 · 09:50 PM
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TOKYO is sticking with plans to raise the sales tax next year, barring a financial crisis or a major natural disaster, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday, without saying whether two deadly quakes in southern Japan qualified as such a disaster.

The tremors on the southern island of Kyushu on Thursday and Saturday have caused at least 42 deaths and disrupted production at major manufactur…

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