Japan drafts record budget as PM battles scandal

2009/12/25 04:14:02 @Reuters: World News

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan approved on Friday a record budget for next year that will inflate the country's already huge debt by $484 billion, as the prime minister vowed to battle on in the face of a growing scandal and sliding poll ratings. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=L0d8LLlfbTM:FcL4to5VeDI:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=L0d8LLlfbTM:FcL4to5VeDI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=L0d8LLlfbTM:FcL4to5VeDI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=L0d8LLlfbTM:FcL4to5VeDI:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=L0d8LLlfbTM:FcL4to5VeDI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/L0d8LLlfbTM" height="1" width="1"/
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