While the ruling LDP’s severe defeat in local elections in Tokyo is not necessarily a bellwether to developments at the national level, we think that the government may respond with a larger supplementary budget for this year. What’s more, it now seems more likely than not that the government will postpone the sales tax hike currently scheduled for October 2019 yet again.
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