“Protecting Employment and Business”, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Aso New Corona April 27, 13:50
Deputy Prime Minister Aso and Minister of Finance will give a financial speech at the plenary session of the House of Representatives on the 27th, and in order to implement emergency economic measures of 117 trillion yen in business scale, including a uniform cash benefit of 100,000 yen, this year's We called for the immediate establishment of a supplementary budget.
Among them, Deputy Prime Minister Aso commented on the current state of the economy: "The new coronavirus infection has had a tremendous impact on the domestic and foreign economies. The future is expected to remain extremely severe until the convergence of the spread of infection can be expected." I said.
On that basis, he said, “We will take measures to prevent the spread of infection and improve the medical care provision system, and make a strong effort to quickly resolve the situation. We will provide strong financing support and new benefits to small and medium-sized businesses and all people in Japan. We will protect our employment and business through systems, etc. ”
Furthermore, with the aim of recovering the economy in a V-shape after the situation has settled, "We will take large-scale support measures as a campaign that includes the public and private sectors in order to stimulate consumption that has dropped significantly such as tourism, transportation, food and drink, and events. We will take reversal offensive measures from both sides of investment promotion that anticipates the future such as digitalization and remoteization, '' and demanded prompt establishment of a supplementary budget proposal in order to promptly implement the policies included in the emergency economic measures. .