Japan said Wednesday it will trim its crisis-mode spending amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine to normal levels, while pledging to achieve economic growth accompanied by wage hikes as part of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's drive to accelerate wealth redistribution.The draft economic and fiscal policy blueprint for fiscal 2023 came as the debt-ridden nation plans to boost spending on defense and child care support in the years ahead, with specifics on how to fund it yet to be finalized.While a reference to its increasingly elusive goal of turning a primary balance surplus in fi…READ FULL ARTICLE
