TOKYO -- Candidates to succeed Prime Minister Fumio Kishida as head of Japan's ruling party are competing to show how they will lighten the economic burden on voters, but such policies could hurt the country's fiscal standing.
Pledges to not raise taxes and extend subsidies risk eroding fiscal situation

Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party announces his candidacy for party leader on Sept. 4. (Photo by Uichiro Kasai)
TOKYO -- Candidates to succeed Prime Minister Fumio Kishida as head of Japan's ruling party are competing to show how they will lighten the economic burden on voters, but such policies could hurt the country's fiscal standing.