Japanese parties woo voters with bold yet opaque growth visions

Japan's major political parties are offering their visions for Japan in the decades ahead as they prepare for an upper house election, outlining ambitious targets, but with few details for voters to parse.The ruling Liberal Democratic Party, led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, seeks to boost the size of Japan's economy to 1,000 trillion yen ($6.9 trillion) by 2040 from around 600 trillion yen last year.The economy would have to grow at over 3 percent every year to achieve that goal, faster than the less than 2 percent seen in the past ten years. The government's 600 trillion yen nominal g…READ FULL ARTICLE