TOKYO: Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told his party on Tuesday he was calling a snap general election and delay a planned sales tax rise, the day after figures showed the country was in recession.
“Prime Minister Abe expressed his intention at an extraordinary board meeting of his Liberal Democratic Party that he would dissolve the House of Representatives,” Jiji Press said.
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