Abe announces sales tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) attends a meeting of representatives of the government and the ruling coalition parties at his office in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2013. Abe told the meeting that the government will raise Japan's sales tax rate in April 2014 to 8 percent from the current 5 percent as planned, marking the first increase in the politically sensitive tax in 17 years.

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