Japan's government will propose a record budget for next fiscal year of more than $800 billion. The calculations of Finance Ministry tell that the goal of balancing the budget by 2020-21 remains ambitious.   Views: sierrawave_92007  "But as the government continues to run a deficit, debt servicing,

Japan's Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Shinzo Abe speaks during a debate session with seven other party leaders ahead of the December 14 lower house election in Tokyo December 1, 2014 Japan's financial regulator is running stress tests to see if too much cash

Passers-by are reflected on an electronic stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo, November 17, 2014. Japan's economy unexpectedly slipped into recession in the third quarter, setting the stage for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to delay an unpopular sales tax hike and call a snap election

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks next to a teleprompter during a news conference after reshuffling his cabinet, at his official residence in Tokyo September 3, 2014. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stands "utterly neutral" on whether to decide in December to raise the sales tax again next year