Prime Minister Shinzo Abe opened the 150-day ordinary Diet session Friday with a policy speech that reaffirmed his vow to push up wages and expand consumption to make his "Abenomics" economic policy sustainable.
Abe devoted most of the 33-page speech to his domestic economic agenda, referring little to the deteriorating relations with China and South Korea or his long-held ambition to revise the pacifist Constitution.
Instead, Abe stressed that the government and the Diet must focus on creating "a virtuous cycle" that can sustain an economic recovery, including getting profitable companies to increase wages.
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