FILE PHOTO: Japan’s Finance Minister Taro Aso answers a question during a news conference of the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in Fukuoka, Japan June 9, 2019. Eugene Hoshiko/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
July 23, 2019
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Tuesday that the government won voters’ confidence in a planned sales tax hike in October through Sunday’s upper house election.
Aso told reporters after a cabinet meeting that the election gave the ruling coalition a stable political footing by giving it a solid majority in the upper house.
“I believe we won public trust for the sales tax hike,” Aso said.
(Reporting by Tetsushi Kajimoto; Editing by Chang-Ran Kim)
