http://www.stippy.com/japan-politics/japans-new-finance-minister/ A fresh look at Japan, by gaijins for gaijins! Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:00:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.stippy.com/japan-politics/japans-new-finance-minister/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Sotei-guy Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:51:13 +0000 http://www.stippy.com/stippy-private/the-new-finance-minister/#comment-52 That's pretty ironic, given Takenaka's stance on the Shohizei issue. Takenaka even went out of his way to do an interview last week stating that Japan had two choices: (1) high tax and low growth or (2) low tax and high growth. He's not showing a lot of confidence in his successor if he's already making public comments about tax policy less than a month after relinguishing the job... That’s pretty ironic, given Takenaka’s stance on the Shohizei issue. Takenaka even went out of his way to do an interview last week stating that Japan had two choices: (1) high tax and low growth or (2) low tax and high growth. He’s not showing a lot of confidence in his successor if he’s already making public comments about tax policy less than a month after relinguishing the job…

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