Is Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida a Keynesian?

Fiscal package could herald a new era of economic redistribution

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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is taking a page from John Maynard Keynes, the renowned 20th-century British economist who stressed the need to support the economy with public spending. (Source photo by Getty Images)

TETSUSHI TAKAHASHI, Nikkei policy news unit editor

October 8, 2021 10:01 JST

Tetsushi Takahashi was Nikkei's China bureau chief from April 2017 to March 2021 and the writer for the Beijing Diary column.

TOKYO -- When you read "Kishida Vision: From Division to Collaboration," a book published last year by Fumio Kishida, Japan's new prime minister, you find many references to the importance of fiscal discipline.