TOKYO -- With rising food and energy prices squeezing household budgets, Japanese parties are promising to ease voters' pain with competing proposals for wage hikes and tax cuts in their campaign platforms for the upper house election on July 10.
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With inflation squeezing household budgets, Japanese parties are promising to deliver age hikes. (Photo by Koji Uema)
TOKYO -- With rising food and energy prices squeezing household budgets, Japanese parties are promising to ease voters' pain with competing proposals for wage hikes and tax cuts in their campaign platforms for the upper house election on July 10.