Japan's lower house approved early Saturday a record 101.46 trillion yen ($913 billion) budget for fiscal 2019, ensuring its enactment before the fiscal year starts on April 1.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition pushed the spending plan through the House of Representatives past midnight, even as opposition lawmakers halted deliberations the previous day by submitting a no-confidence motion against a Cabinet minister over his handling of a faulty jobs data scandal.The initial general-account budget topped 100 trillion yen for the first time amid swelling social security costs and de…READ FULL ARTICLE
