Japan vows commitment to ADB fund

MANILA, Philippines - Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi speaks at an annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank in Manila on May 4, 2012. Azumi vowed Japan's strong commitment to the ADB's low-interest fund to help Asia's poorest, by offering to provide 35 percent, or around 157.1 billion yen ($1.96 billion), of a record-high increase of the fund over four years from 2013.

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