Diet convenes, debates to focus on extra budget

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa delivers a fiscal policy speech at a plenary session of the House of Representatives on Jan. 5. The ruling and opposition parties are expected to clash over a supplementary budget for fiscal 2008 presented at the outset of the session.

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