The following is the gist of a policy speech delivered Monday by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the start of an extraordinary parliamentary session.
Kishida vows to:
-- revive Japan's pandemic-battered inbound tourism industry.
-- maximize advantage of weak yen to revive economy.
-- take "unprecedented" steps to alleviate burden of price hikes on households, companies.
-- encourage wage increases by investing 1 trillion yen over 5 years in human resource development in promising fields.
-- consider reviewing laws, rules on consumer contracts to protect victims of Unification Church's malicious practices.
