Staff writer
The deliberations of the 18-day extraordinary Diet session were essentially completed Friday by the approval of the fiscal year's third supplementary budget that will finance the government's 24 trillion yen stimulus package.
The session will officially close Monday, after which the political focus will shift to preparing the fiscal 1999 budget and attempts by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the Liberal Party to form a coalition before the ordinary Diet session begins Jan. 19.
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