Almost all Japan households received virus relief cash handouts

The government said Tuesday 98.6 percent of households in Japan have received the one-off 100,000 yen ($940) cash handouts meant to help cushion the economic fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic that has continued to linger, with Tokyo seeing 182 new daily cases of the virus.The government has completed handing out the money to approximately 58.26 million households, equivalent to 12.55 trillion yen, or 98.5 percent, of the budget for the project, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.In principle, the head of a household receives the total amount of the ca…READ FULL ARTICLE