Japan's parliament on Tuesday passed a record 122.31 trillion yen ($767 billion) budget for the year through next March, the first time in 11 years it was approved after the April 1 start of the fiscal year.As the annual budget approved by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Cabinet in December does not include concrete steps to cushion the potential economic impact from the Iran war and surges in crude oil prices, opposition lawmakers have already called on the government to consider drafting a supplementary budget.In response to the crisis triggered by the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran that b…READ FULL ARTICLE
