Social security, defense costs push budget requests to 101 tril. yen

Social security, defense costs push budget requests to 101 tril. yen

Officials check fiscal 2017 budget request documents at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2016. The requests by central government offices totaled more than 101 trillion yen due to increasing social security and defense costs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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